picture breakup when watching TV over Wifi (1 Viewer)

[cypher007]

if i use media portal to watch TV, live or recorded, over Wifi to either of my N connected laptops from a central server, i get picture breakup. if i play a ts stream via media player classic home cinema from a mapped driver on the same server it fine. any ideas?

p.s. what can i use to recode the ts streams. ive tried ripbot264 and dvdfab, both lockup or crash on BBC HD streams.

 

[mbuzina]

Try iPimp, it comes with handbrake and provides transcoding

 

[porky996t]

Hi Cypher,

I eventually gave up trying to reliably stream wirelessly, even using an 'N' type router. I suspect I was just getting too much interference from other sources around the same frequency - neighbours wireless routers, DECT Cordless phones, 'Magic eye' remote senders etc, etc. SD stuff was OK - ish, but HD was unwatchable. There was just no consistency at all.

On fixed clients I now use the AV200 'passthrough' Homeplugs which work really well, but will soon be installing a Gigabit network throughout the house. (MePo seems to have taken over my life now )

I know it doesn't solve your problem, but there have been many others that have asked the same thing.




M.

 

[VirtualMP]

Sorry to drag up an old thread but its the most recent on the subject I could find. I am also having problams streaming over WiFi. I can get MP to work perfectly if I use a WDS on my DD-WRT routers but if I use them in bridge mode I get video breakup. Any WiFi device connected directly (not via a cable to a bridge or a WDS) suffers the same video breakup. Any Ideas? Some posts seam to think its becaus of packets being lost due to UDP, I guess a WDS has protection against this and so works. Really keen to get this working, I gave up inittially and installed cables but am now looking at converting the shed to a room and want a telly in there, if I cant get WiFi to work the only other option is Homeplug devices which I have tried to avoid up until now.

 

[VirtualMP]

Dragging this up again. Its almost definitely a UDP issue. As part of a different project I have set up a segregated WiFi network that only has access to my main network via a VPN (openVPNAS) and with this set to TCP mode I get perfect picture on WiFi clients. Its a long way round and was never done as a solution to MediaPortal on WiFi but it works. Maybe a more simple answer is something like this http://tunnel.mrq3.com/ I'd be keen to hear from anyone who already has it working and on what hardware.

I could tell you a joke about UDP but you might not get it.

 

[exe222]

Hi VirtualMP, and all,

could you please be more specific how to get the tunneling setup running? Is this by now the only way to "fix" it?

 

[VirtualMP]

I have not tried the tunnel I was just suggesting it as an option. I am using a VPN (OpenVPNAS) and have this set to TCP mode. I set the VPN up for other reasons, I have 2 old laptops that dont support anything more than WEP so I have a seperate WiFi network just for them with VPN access to the main network. They both use MediaPortal with no problems as the VPN sends UDP over TCP (this is a bad VPN practice but I only have 2 clients!). I also have a WiFi link using WDS to my Garage and MediaPortal runs fine over this but whenever its a straight WiFi connection I get picture breakup.

there is also this option but again I have not tried it. You would have to set it on all clients connected via WiFi.

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...MediaPortal_Configuration/22_TV/Debug_Options?

 

[exe222]

Thank you very much - the debug options with UNC configuration was the solution.
Why is something that important (for WIFI users) hidden in the deep of MP?