Hi all,

When I connect a xine-network client to vdr w/vdr-xine, the video stutters, frame rate is 2-5 FPS, video freezes for several seconds, there is 2-4 seconds of normal video (with normal audio) then it freezes and the whole process repeats. Network is 100 Mbps switched Ethernet with all machines using 100 Mbps Full-Duplex connections. I am not using any plug-ins other than xine (no EPG, etc, etc). All channels seem to operate the same way.

I did modify VDR's FRAMESPERSEC and set it to 30 (for NTSC).

Oddly, if I use xine on the vdr machine and launch it localhost, video is fine, audio is fine, I can change channels, etc! Everything seems to work well.

I have tried two different clients, completely different hardware and Linux distros with same results.

Xine-lib is compiled on all three machines identically, first RH's xine-lib patch applied, then the network patch. One machine is a K7 2800+ MP, GeForce Ti4600 w/nVidia drivers, etc. Second machine is a P3 700 MHz with S3 video.

I also notice sometimes if I connect with the client, the host will report "wrong version", particularly, if the client was forced to disconnect quickly previously.

Here are the versions of what I am using:

- VDR 1.3.44 - vdr-xine 0.7.8 - xine-lib-cvs-20060319194500.tar.bz2, - xine-ui-cvs-20060319194500,

Network patch from:

http://linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-February/008021.html

DVBPlayer patch:

http://home.vrweb.de/~rnissl/vdr-1.3.44-dvbplayer5.patch

Thanks, CR.