Choppy Playback on Main PC When MVP Server is running

[HtV]

Maybe I'll try it some time. I googled around a bit and found a lot of people saying:"Yes I can really notice it, it really speeded up my machine". But I didn't find any real benchmarks. Reminds me of the first small motorbike I had when I was 12. I drilled holes in the exhaust pipe, I was convinced it went a lot faster than before. Ah well at least it was less dangerous, people could here me coming a mile away .

[HtV]

Yeah I know, I've a laptop aswell SIW says it has a L2-cache of 1024 KB. I might try it on that some time.

[cgmt]

I had trouble when the use of FFMpeg was first added for real-time AVI transcoding to the MVP. Someone mentioned lowering the bitrate from 2400 to 2000 in config.xml and that made all the difference:

Code:

<MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>-y -i "{SOURCE_FILE}" -b [b]2000[/b] -ac 2 -ab 128 -r 29.97 -s 352x240 -f svcd "{DEST_FILE}"</MVPFFmpegTranscodeCmdLineNTSC>

I'm not really sure why this was necessary because it appeared that my CPU was able to keep up at 2400, but whatever... it worked. I also bumped up the MVP pre-delay just a bit.

Thanks for the tip. I tried this and it worked better, but if I am watching a DVD on my main PC and then try to watch an avi through the MVP, it is still choppy. It does work better is the main PC is idle though

[wtg]

Thanks for the tip. I tried this and it worked better, but if I am watching a DVD on my main PC and then try to watch an avi through the MVP, it is still choppy. It does work better is the main PC is idle though

Glad it worked for you. I would think your PC has enough muscle to watch a DVD while transcoding an AVI. They're both a bit intensive and time sensitive, but still 3GHz ought to be enough.

Make sure your DVD drive is DMA enabled and that the decoder you're using for the DVD playback has hardware acceleration enabled. You might be able to have your cake and eat it too.

Finally, check your PCI latency. NVidia and ATI drivers both boost the graphics cards PCI latency to unreasonably high values which can leave too little time available for other processes to use the PCI bus. Essentially the graphics card can hog the system even when it's not that busy, causing other things to stutter like your sound or network cards. Check out http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=951 for a free tool to check and set it, as well as some good information about it. It could be your graphics card is starving the rest of the system.

Good luck,
Tim

[HtV]

You should do it anyway on that laptop with L2-1024MB, you'll see a huge improvement. Though better is was a desktop CPU... I have Intel Prescott with L2-1024MB. Enable the cache and OC the CPU has made a difference.

Ok, I did a test. first did a systrem-cleaning with windowwasher, to get rid of all tempfiles etc.
- I unpacked a 1.8 GB rar-archive, that took 5 mins 22 secs. This was with the ssecondlevelcache set to 0.(default)

- Deleted the unpacked rar, cleaned the system again with windowwasher.
Set the secondlevelcache to 1024 with SpeedXP.
unpacked the the 1.8 GB rar again..........................5 mins 23 secs.
So no difference what so ever.

Edit: I did restart the system after changing the secondlevelcache-setting.