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Title: Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: jpd5862 on January 05, 2004, 01:54:02 pm

I have a bunch of MPEG video files of TV shows I recorded with SageTV.  I love sage, but it has lousy features for managing its video library files.  I came up with the brillant idea of using Media Center to manage these video files.  Until now, it had been working great.

I have a main computer I use as my media server, and stream audio files to a client computer connected to my TV in my living room.  Audio streams fine, but I can't seem to stream the video files I created.  It seems that MC / Media Server first copies the file to my media client, then plays the temporary file.  Is there any to get this configuration to truly stream my video files?

Thanks!

jpd

Title: Re:Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: Cindy_B on January 08, 2004, 06:58:25 pm

What video format are you using?  I tested streaming videos a few versions back and it work great using "mpg" format.  I going to test it again using the current version.  

Title: Re:Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: John Gateley on January 08, 2004, 07:04:29 pm

Sorry, missed this first time around.

Can you give a more explicit picture jpd? Enough that I could reproduce it here if I needed. It may be that I can tweak something (and it may not be).

Thanks,

j

Title: Re: Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: digitaltrapper on December 23, 2004, 09:42:09 pm

I have the same problem. Videos that are large (700mb) do not stream or start playing untill the entire video is sent over the network to the client computer. How do you get this to stream the video?? I have seen this question asked a few times but I have not seen an answer.

Title: Re: Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: John Gateley on December 23, 2004, 10:15:57 pm

Again - I need more details. What format video are you trying to stream?

j

Title: Re: Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: digitaltrapper on December 26, 2004, 04:28:18 pm

most of the videos that I have tried have been AVI (divx) encodes.

Title: Re: Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: John Gateley on December 28, 2004, 01:33:27 pm

I'll look at this on monday, feel free to remind me...

j

Title: Re: Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: Alex B on December 28, 2004, 04:12:41 pm

As I wrote in this thread: "Video via media server? (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=23259.0)" I have found that MPEG1 videos are streamed, but e.g. DIVX or XVID (in AVI container) and MPEG2 are not. I don't think the situation has changed after that August thread.

Actually the buffering might not be a bad thing, because after buffering the playback is flawless. I have a 100 Mbit LAN, but I am speaking about high resolution videos (e.g. 720x576 pixels). Much smaller MPEG1 files can have jerky playback when they are streamed.

Title: Re: Video streaming with Media Server?
Post by: digitaltrapper on December 28, 2004, 09:07:25 pm

i wouldn't mind if the video needed to buffer a portion of the file, but it actually downloads the entire divx file to the client computer before playing... and yes, it plays great since the file now resides on the local computer.

Thanks for looking into this...