Slowness using Play Program button

[mthomas]

Anyone else seeing slowness when playing a program using the Play Program button in EWA?

I'm using GB-PVR 1.4.7 with the included EWA and VLC 1.0.3. When I use the Play Program button in EWA there is about a 45 second delay before the program plays in VLC. I see this same delay if I skip ahead in the program using a keyboard shortcut or using the slider in VLC. This only occurs when I use EWA on the same host on which GBPVR is running. If I connect from another host (on my LAN) there is no delay. Similarly, if I simply open the file GBPVR has saved using VLC on the GBPVR host, there is no delay. Wierd.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.

Thanks,

...Mike

[UncleJohnsBand]

Anyone else seeing slowness when playing a program using the Play Program button in EWA?

I'm using GB-PVR 1.4.7 with the included EWA and VLC 1.0.3. When I use the Play Program button in EWA there is about a 45 second delay before the program plays in VLC. I see this same delay if I skip ahead in the program using a keyboard shortcut or using the slider in VLC. This only occurs when I use EWA on the same host on which GBPVR is running. If I connect from another host (on my LAN) there is no delay. Similarly, if I simply open the file GBPVR has saved using VLC on the GBPVR host, there is no delay. Wierd.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.

Thanks,

...Mike

Play sends the file as-is to the remote client....so depending on the file size and your network and your network connection you may see slowness as the file makes its way to the client.

You are better off installing VLC and configuring EWA to stream to clients.

You can install the most recent version of VLC but will need this EWA patch for streaming to work.....it will be in the next release of EWA.

[mthomas]

Play sends the file as-is to the remote client....so depending on the file size and your network and your network connection you may see slowness as the file makes its way to the client.

Thanks UJB. What I don't understand is why I only see the delay when I'm NOT going across the LAN (i.e. the client is running on the same host as GB-PVR). If I'm going across the LAN there is no delay, if I'm playing locally there is a delay.

[mthomas]

Thanks UJB. What I don't understand is why I only see the delay when I'm NOT going across the LAN (i.e. the client is running on the same host as GB-PVR). If I'm going across the LAN there is no delay, if I'm playing locally there is a delay.

I just discovered something interesting. If I access EWA using http://localhost:7600/gbpvr/Manage.aspx I see the slowness. If I use the IP address, e.g. http://192.168.1.2:7600/gbpvr/Manage.aspx, there is no slowness. I'm guessing something is screwy with my DNS resolver or with my loopback connection.

[UncleJohnsBand]

I just discovered something interesting. If I access EWA using http://localhost:7600/gbpvr/Manage.aspx I see the slowness. If I use the IP address, e.g. http://192.168.1.2:7600/gbpvr/Manage.aspx, there is no slowness. I'm guessing something is screwy with my DNS resolver or with my loopback connection.

I would tend to agree sounds like a dns issue.....also if you are streaming and recieving on the same machine you processor will really be cranking because it is reading the file, trasncoding it, recieving it via your client viewer and then decoding the stream for display.....in a normal client server model your host machine is only reading the source, encoding and streaming it.....