Buffering Media Streams (1 Viewer)

[Marky Mark]

I could not find anything about this from a quick search on the forum, but is there an option to buffer media streams when they are being played back across a network?

I use MediaPortal to play back media from a server - most affected are mpg files from TV recordings and ripped from DVDs, which often get brief glitches in the playback. The network is a Gigabit LAN, so bandwidth is not a problem. If there was a 1 second or so buffer it would mean that these glitches could be eliminated.

I think that this may become more of an issue as TV Server is implemented as that will tend to more people playing back recorded TV over the network. It may also help with live streams.

 

[joboehl]

The stream is always buffered, my experience is that is has close to 1 sec buff at the client and 3 sec from the server. That's one of the reasons why channel changing over the network takes longer than on a single-seat setup.

I use the TVServer on a 100Mbps LAN and I have no glitches at all, both with ripped DVDs and TV viewing.

You could monitor the server to see if there's no other bottlelneck (like disk) or collisions in the network.

 

[Marky Mark]

Thanks - it will be good when I have the server fully implemented, at the moment I am having problems with the client crashing, so am still using a set up with 2 clients for my main viewing. I wasn't sure whether the MyVideo plugin was also going to buffer, but will look at the network and server to see if I can find any problems there.