2006-12-01, 07:37 AM
I installed 98.13 in client mode on my new Core Duo desktop and using the same config as my laptop, I don't get the same performance. I upped the Client Mode Cache to 65536 from 49152. No difference. Here is what gives....
The laptop is 802.11g wireless and the PVR box is also 802.11g wireless. The Code Duo is wired.
The performance on each is the same when selecting a 'recording' - no frame dropping. When I go to the video library and play it from a directory, the laptop is fine, but the desktop drops frames often! It stutters along.
The desktop is faster and wired... hmm, it is a dual processor.
I have three reasons to want to use Video Library over Recorded to play a movie.
1. Recorded has messed with the timeline on some movie playback.
2. Recorded isn't nearly as responsive on Ctrl-<left> or Ctrl-<right> to skip forward or back as using Video Library.
3. I push recorded mpgs to another hard drive to conserve space on the recording drive so they can't be accessed via the Recorded menu.
Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot it?
The laptop is 802.11g wireless and the PVR box is also 802.11g wireless. The Code Duo is wired.
The performance on each is the same when selecting a 'recording' - no frame dropping. When I go to the video library and play it from a directory, the laptop is fine, but the desktop drops frames often! It stutters along.
The desktop is faster and wired... hmm, it is a dual processor.
I have three reasons to want to use Video Library over Recorded to play a movie.
1. Recorded has messed with the timeline on some movie playback.
2. Recorded isn't nearly as responsive on Ctrl-<left> or Ctrl-<right> to skip forward or back as using Video Library.
3. I push recorded mpgs to another hard drive to conserve space on the recording drive so they can't be accessed via the Recorded menu.
Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot it?