[vdr] Re: streamdev plugin --> choppy playback

[Thomas Glomann <dromtom@web.de>]

On Friday 25 July 2003 20:16, you wrote:
> On Friday 25 July 2003 13:16, you wrote:
> > Am Fre, 2003-07-25 um 13.04 schrieb Thomas Glomann:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > now that streaming plugin works again, I have about question to
> > > hardware requirements.
> > >
> > > my setup:
> > >   server: K6 2 200 (acutally 300), 1 DVB-s, 64 MB
> > >   client: PIII 900
> > >   network: switched 100 MBit
> > >
> > > playback on the client using mplayer is very choppy.  guess it is like
> > > 5 fps. a/v complete out of sync and so on.
> > > I tried TS, PES, PS.  TS doesn't work at all. PES and PS are almost
> > > identical in performance.
> > > The bottleneck must be the server I think.
> >
> > The bottleneck is MPlayer as it can't handle TS, the demuxer has
> > problems with PES and it is usally choppy as it can't synchronize A/V
> > correctly. Try TS with Xine!
> >
> > --
> > Rene Bartsch
> > Faculties MNI
> > Computer Science 8th Semester
> > FH Giessen/Friedberg, Germany
> >
> > Facsimile/Phone: +49 7 00/72 27 87 24
> > Mail:  rene@bartschnet.de
>
> I tried TS with Xine and it works flawlessly, but only for SOME channels.
> e.g. Pro Sieben works fine but ARD has no audio.
> encrypted channels also don't work.
>
> with PS and mplayer ARD works with audio, however it is choppy ...
>
> will try to use todays CVS of xine, already downloaded it.  currently i
> have version : 0.9.18


well, tried latest xine cvs.
TS now works except some buffer problems sometimes on some channels.  Can the 
buffer size be increased somewhere?
PES still doesn't work with xine :(  So I can only stream FTA channels. With 
PES/PS and mplayer encrypted channels do work but it is real choppy and thus 
unusable.
BTW, is there any possibility to switch channels without having to stop the 
stream and request another "URL" ? this is not very comfortable for zapping 
;)

regards,

Thomas


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