[Question] Minumum cpu for streaming (1 Viewer)

[bcdudley]

I am curious what the recommended cpu is for running MPExtended. No matter what I use to stream, it maxes out the cpu on my server. I have the same results whether I use Ampdroid or the WebMediaPortal. After a few minutes of watching, the remote video starts skipping and eventually stops.

My cpu is a Intel Q9400 quad core 2.66. Is this just way under powered or do I have something else wrong. I can foresee having 2 to 3 streams going at once, but the way it is now, I can't even handle one.

 

[joxen]

i have the same problem it is working great in ipimp but not in MPEXtended ..

in ipimp my cpu transcodes in 10 % in MPExtended 98 %

if ther is som logs or somthing that whil be nessesary for trubel shoting i whil post them ..

sorry for bad spelling ..

 

[SiLenTYL]

my tv server (which holds all my tv shows etc) - has a phenom II 3-core 2.8ghz and it tells me 99% cpu usage when im streaming.. its works great
just dont do like.. anything else internet related or your stream breaks and the same stream will play from the beginning and stop at the same point it first broke...

 

[DieBagger]

my tv server (which holds all my tv shows etc) - has a phenom II 3-core 2.8ghz and it tells me 99% cpu usage when im streaming.. its works great
just dont do like.. anything else internet related or your stream breaks and the same stream will play from the beginning and stop at the same point it first broke...

The problem with the flash player is that it requests the full video (not just a limited "buffer"). So as long as the video hasn't been fully transcoded it will use the full processor power. You can limit it by e.g. only allowing one core for transcoding.

 

[joxen]

How do you do that ?

 

[msj33]

MPextended is very CPU consuming.........Almost useless on all current profiles in MPExtended

Hopefully more transcoding profiles (planned release in 0.5) can help fix the issue.

Futhermore Videoquality/Bandwidth/CPU requirements should be optimized somehow(If possible..........But Ipimp does not seem to suffer from above issue).

/Morten

 

[Oxan]

MPextended is very CPU consuming.........Almost useless on all current profiles in MPExtended

For you. I use it daily without problems. That it uses 100% CPU isn't a problem in itself.

 

[joxen]

i se a problem i have 4 clients in my home and if my son and wife is using 2 of them and records a channel it is not possible for me to stream to my phone it is not even possible white one client making a channel change whit out losing the stream.

Don t take this the wrong way i realy like what you are doing and i am not complaining whit out you i cudent whatch tv at all so i thank you all for a great product .

 

[SiLenTYL]

MPextended is very CPU consuming.........Almost useless on all current profiles in MPExtended

For you. I use it daily without problems. That it uses 100% CPU isn't a problem in itself.

True, however if a stream breaks.. it really brakes! not sure if its cpu related or internet related.. but its very annoying and it cannot be "started" again

 

[Ken4000]

I have the same problem. I can see that ffmpeg uses 100% cpu and the stream then stops.
To force ffmpeg to use one thread use the parameter -threads 1, but it didn't helped me. Please correct this. I have subsonic installed on my server which also uses ffmpeg with no ploblems...