Basic video buffering?

[capone]

I just tried opening it through the local web server as a url, and it was just downloading the whole thing it seemed. It still seems to know it's not getting it outside the LAN.

[stefan]

Are you getting a full 54 Mb/s connection between your computers? I had a stupid software installed (which I forgot about) on one of my computers, which made that computer slow over the network, so I could never get enough bandwidth from it. Simple check is to open up network tab on windows task manager...

[capone]

The speed isn't a problem. It's a 100% quality of connect, and gets enough bandwidth to handle the bitrates. It's just the inevitable hiccups in the wifi and speed of the machine tyring to keep up in real time. That's why it just needs a few seconds of lead time.

[Torque]

Yes, unless you have some sort of streaming media service running on your web server, it'll download the entire file before playing it. You'll need to connect directly to your PVR's filesystem in order to buffer the video.

[capone]

Yes, unless you have some sort of streaming media service running on your web server, it'll download the entire file before playing it. You'll need to connect directly to your PVR's filesystem in order to buffer the video.

The websever test was just an experiment, not by best method. In the direct connect method, how are you getting the buffering w/ a regular media player?

My preffered method is direct connect, since I'm just doing this over the LAN.

[Torque]

I didn't set anything up special, using defaults with MPC. I go to the video file I want to play in Windows Explorer, double click, buffers for 5 seconds, then it starts playing. I can look tonite to see what my settings are by default and you can compare.

[capone]

Try setting the buffer up to 30sec. I'd be interesting in knowing if it does buffer for 30sec before playing.

[Torque]

Well, I just checked Media Player Classic and couldn't see anywhere in the program to set the buffer.

I tried WMP to see if my codecs were still screwed up and it started playing the file immediately, no buffer wait, like it was sitting locally on the HDD. I found where you can set the buffer, so I set it for 30 seconds and closed it. Tried a different file video on my PVR I've never watched on this PC before. It immediately started playing also.

For grins, I tried my wife's PC. It's a generic install with just the basics... she doesn't let me use it much so I know I haven't "screwed it up" The buffer setting in WMP actually made a difference on hers, set to 5 seconds, it'd say "waiting" at the bottom of the screen for about 5 seconds, then play. Set it to 10, it'd say "waiting" at the bottom for 10 seconds. But it still played the file across the network. So something special got set on mine to ignore the buffer... could be all the codecs I have installed or something. But a vanilla install should behave like my wife's machine does.

So what did YOU do to your PC??

[capone]

For grins, I tried my wife's PC. It's a generic install with just the basics... she doesn't let me use it much so I know I haven't "screwed it up" The buffer setting in WMP actually made a difference on hers, set to 5 seconds, it'd say "waiting" at the bottom of the screen for about 5 seconds, then

hurm...so it can work, possibly. Heheh...ok....I need to find a system around here I didn't "play" w/ too much...

So what did YOU do to your PC??

Everything I have done has been an improvement....honest

[capone]

I tried last night on a system so not jerked around w/...err...improved...that it couldn't play most files because I hadn't put in codecs for them yet. The one I did find, a basic mpeg1 file, didn't buffer at all.

There is something different about your wife's system. Is it an older version of WMP? Can you check differences in the settings for it vs one that doesn't buffer? It's probably something simple.