Anyone sorted the jerky videos over WiFi problem?

[belfast-biker]

Thought I had it a few times, but it depends very much on the bit rate of the videos. And probably other encoding issues.

Tried XCPUScalar, and performance got much worse. PHM eventually died on me.

Is the bottleneck the cpu or the network?

Using TCPMP btw mostly.

[underwurlde]

Thought I had it a few times, but it depends very much on the bit rate of the videos. And probably other encoding issues.

Feedback your settings please.

BTW, what is the bandwidth of WiFi?

Will not be processor limitation in my mind. Best player out there is TCPMP...


Andy

[belfast-biker]

Thought I had it a few times, but it depends very much on the bit rate of the videos. And probably other encoding issues.

Feedback your settings please.

BTW, what is the bandwidth of WiFi?

Will not be processor limitation in my mind. Best player out there is TCPMP...


Andy


Tried a variety of settings, none satisfactory. Does anyone have it working well so far?

Bandwidth of WiFi is theoretically 11Mbps, so that should be OK.... I've even ot best performance ticked in the wifi settings on the exec.

[underwurlde]

OK,

For video content on my Xda I convert DVD (or whatever) to use a frame size of 256x192 (i.e. maximums based on the AR of the orginating film) - this results in a staggeringly low 16x12=192 macroblocks for the encoding process to deal with, hence results in very small file sizes & therefore very small bandwidth usage.

Note: further reductions in file size & bandwidth can be achieved by reducing the frame rate but I'd choose 15fps as an absolute minimum - I don't bother doing this because of the resulting loss in quality.

I can only recommend video settings - I have not streamed over WiFi yet.

Andy

[belfast-biker]

Yeah, I've got loads of re-encoding progs, and they all work but....

...the whole point of this is simply to play the files I've downloaded to my PC via Wifi, without further mucking around.

[underwurlde]

OK sorry - you can kind of go around in circles with this kind of stuff. The video settings above I have found to hugely reduce the video bandwidth whilst still maintaining the quality of the original - just thought if you were to use those settings then things may not be so jittery, but it looks like you've already gone down that path.

I'll shut up now. :wink:

[belfast-biker]

OK sorry - you can kind of go around in circles with this kind of stuff. The video settings above I have found to hugely reduce the video bandwidth whilst still maintaining the quality of the original - just thought if you were to use those settings then things may not be so jittery, but it looks like you've already gone down that path.

I'll shut up now. :wink:


Just downloaded the new version of TCPMP too - no joy there.

Pain in the ass.

[Celestial]

Same issue here...see my thread about UPNP Transcoding on what we really need.