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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 787541" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi againI've checked the samples and I can confirm they are *both* 1080i h.264 - I'd call that HD. The Times Now bitrate is stable at roughly 9.3 Mbps whereas the Star Movies bitrate varies quite widely between 4.5 and 8 Mbps. That would mean that a Star Movies recording could take significantly less HDD space than the Times Now recording, even though they are both 1080i h.264.Getting back to what Tourettes said: if your clients all have roughly the same GPU capabilities as your server then there is no doubt you will need new hardware. Your server's GPU is does not support hardware accelerated h.264 decoding, and the 2.6 GHz Athlon CPU can't handle decoding by itself either if the bitrate is too high. Your best option is to get some relatively cheap video cards that support hardware accelerated decoding for each of the clients. For ATI I'd recommend no less than an HD 4670, 5450, or 6450.mm[Edit: you can use software like <a href="http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en" target="_blank">MediaInfo</a> to examine the video details for recordings. VLC will also show some details in &quot;Tools&quot; -&gt; &quot;Codec Information&quot;.]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 787541, member: 82144"] Hi again I've checked the samples and I can confirm they are *both* 1080i h.264 - I'd call that HD. The Times Now bitrate is stable at roughly 9.3 Mbps whereas the Star Movies bitrate varies quite widely between 4.5 and 8 Mbps. That would mean that a Star Movies recording could take significantly less HDD space than the Times Now recording, even though they are both 1080i h.264. Getting back to what Tourettes said: if your clients all have roughly the same GPU capabilities as your server then there is no doubt you will need new hardware. Your server's GPU is does not support hardware accelerated h.264 decoding, and the 2.6 GHz Athlon CPU can't handle decoding by itself either if the bitrate is too high. Your best option is to get some relatively cheap video cards that support hardware accelerated decoding for each of the clients. For ATI I'd recommend no less than an HD 4670, 5450, or 6450. mm [Edit: you can use software like [URL="http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en"]MediaInfo[/URL] to examine the video details for recordings. VLC will also show some details in "Tools" -> "Codec Information".] [/QUOTE]

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