2009-02-03, 02:02 PM
I've been messing with setting up a PC client for quite some time now. I'm testing now with the living room PC as the server and our office PC as the client. Both machines are well capable of playing HD video but I've never quite been able to get the client to play recordings smoothly. Any combination of muxes or decoders never seemed to do the trick. So last night I bring home an extra long cat5 cable and run it across the living room to the study and plug it into the network switch. Then the magic happened. I could watch all the recordings smooth as silk. I even watched a recording and started live tv in the living room at the same time and no hiccups. Loading the tv guide on the client, which took 5 mins before, was almost instantaneous. So the good news is I know I can get it working. I just don't relish the idea of having to crawl thruough the attic to drop another cable.
Problem:
I would like to get a client to be able to use live TV as well as watch recordings if at all possible. I got live tv working on the client using the TS Mux, however, I recorded a few minutes of a show and the playback of the recording was just too jumpy using file sharing mode. Recordings play back fine using the DVR-MS mux but of course live TV does not work.
Question:
Is it possible to get both live tv and view recordings on a PC client?
If you got this far, thanks for reading.
Problem:
I would like to get a client to be able to use live TV as well as watch recordings if at all possible. I got live tv working on the client using the TS Mux, however, I recorded a few minutes of a show and the playback of the recording was just too jumpy using file sharing mode. Recordings play back fine using the DVR-MS mux but of course live TV does not work.
Question:
Is it possible to get both live tv and view recordings on a PC client?
If you got this far, thanks for reading.
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Server
Antec NSK400 case
ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard
AMD AM2 3800+ X2 processor
256 MB GeForce 8500GT
Pinnecle USB HD Pro Stick
Vbox Cat's eye DTA 150
1 GB pc5200 Ram
500 GB HDD OS/Videos
1000GB HDD Recordings
Client
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe MB
AMD Processor ??
512 MB pc3200 Ram
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
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Server
Antec NSK400 case
ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard
AMD AM2 3800+ X2 processor
256 MB GeForce 8500GT
Pinnecle USB HD Pro Stick
Vbox Cat's eye DTA 150
1 GB pc5200 Ram
500 GB HDD OS/Videos
1000GB HDD Recordings
Client
Asus A7N8X-Deluxe MB
AMD Processor ??
512 MB pc3200 Ram
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
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