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Hi. Thank you for responding in a constructive manner. Much appriciated, no matter what your sentiments would be after reading my response. 
I will rebuild one of the testmachines again to comply with your questions and get you guys the info the way you want it. There's no doubt in my mind the problem is solvable if given a small amount of you guys' precious time.
I am however now in my hollydays, so I won't be able to do this till begining next week when I return. Be sure you're not of the hook yet.
What I CAN tell you (I hadn't included this in my first post) is
On your question "did RTSP work on ANY system" the answer is a resounding "YES", more specifically on the lowcost NF6100 Asrock machine, equiped with a lowly 2800 Sempron 754 cpu. It also worked pretty well on a SG-71 S478 mainboard with a SIS651 chipset, although at least one minor stutter within a one minute "viewframe" was always present.
1) I excluded the "dead switch" issue by trying 4 different switches/routers in my tests (A WL706 Thomson ADSL/VOIP, a WL716 Thomson, and a LevelOne 5port Gigabit Nic, and lastly a -fail to remember which brand right now- large 24 ports 10/100 Switch). It had no impact on the problem what so ever. I even went so far as excluding any router at all, by placing a second network card in the TVservermachine, and used fixed IP's and a crossover cable to connect to the client. It again had had no impact. I even went so far as exchanging all my cables in the process, although there was no obvious sign it had any connection to the problem, and the cabletester I used to determine the correctness of the used cables had not indiciated any issue either. And before you ask, I'm using Cat5-E which is stamped "certified for gigabit" and -again- tested by me to see if that was indeed the case, it turned out there wasn't a problem
I also failed to mention I had disabled ALL hardware firewalls where these would be included in a gives hardware, and I had NOT installed any softwarebased firewall/antivirus and antispyware, I had disabled the complete XP security system and had disabled the updating system of XP to exclude the possibility that these services would hamper performance.
2) I'm somewhat puzzled by the "include patches found here" remark. You ARE refering to the "use latest builds of TV server, SVN builds and the .net 2.0, MS SQL and Express utilities" remark, yes ? In that case, this was always done. If you're targetting another kind of updates, please let me know. In the other case, yes of course, I always installed them. I too played with various versions of TVserver, backtracking roughly a month old (including the corresponding TVserver plugin for MP of course). Again, no difference. On the Codec side, no additional Mpeg2 codec was installed in the first stage of every platform test. Only when it turned out there was irrepearable sutter on a system, a single Cyberlink PowerDVD6 license was installed, to see if the stutter would be influenced by switching to that specific codec. It never had any impact.
I understand analogue maybe dead for many people/regions. It however is still quite alive here, and will remain so for several years to come, as DVB-T is totally underdevelopped here (2 channels only), and DVB-C is lacking so many channels of our region it can't reasonably be considered to replace analogue TV. Looking at your response, I'm somewhat inclined to consider the reason you lucky people are not having these issues could be because you're not using analogue based capture cards.
Execpt a full answer with asked logs sometime next week; I will take the "worst" machine to get you that info.
I will rebuild one of the testmachines again to comply with your questions and get you guys the info the way you want it. There's no doubt in my mind the problem is solvable if given a small amount of you guys' precious time.
I am however now in my hollydays, so I won't be able to do this till begining next week when I return. Be sure you're not of the hook yet.
What I CAN tell you (I hadn't included this in my first post) is
On your question "did RTSP work on ANY system" the answer is a resounding "YES", more specifically on the lowcost NF6100 Asrock machine, equiped with a lowly 2800 Sempron 754 cpu. It also worked pretty well on a SG-71 S478 mainboard with a SIS651 chipset, although at least one minor stutter within a one minute "viewframe" was always present.
1) I excluded the "dead switch" issue by trying 4 different switches/routers in my tests (A WL706 Thomson ADSL/VOIP, a WL716 Thomson, and a LevelOne 5port Gigabit Nic, and lastly a -fail to remember which brand right now- large 24 ports 10/100 Switch). It had no impact on the problem what so ever. I even went so far as excluding any router at all, by placing a second network card in the TVservermachine, and used fixed IP's and a crossover cable to connect to the client. It again had had no impact. I even went so far as exchanging all my cables in the process, although there was no obvious sign it had any connection to the problem, and the cabletester I used to determine the correctness of the used cables had not indiciated any issue either. And before you ask, I'm using Cat5-E which is stamped "certified for gigabit" and -again- tested by me to see if that was indeed the case, it turned out there wasn't a problem
I also failed to mention I had disabled ALL hardware firewalls where these would be included in a gives hardware, and I had NOT installed any softwarebased firewall/antivirus and antispyware, I had disabled the complete XP security system and had disabled the updating system of XP to exclude the possibility that these services would hamper performance.
2) I'm somewhat puzzled by the "include patches found here" remark. You ARE refering to the "use latest builds of TV server, SVN builds and the .net 2.0, MS SQL and Express utilities" remark, yes ? In that case, this was always done. If you're targetting another kind of updates, please let me know. In the other case, yes of course, I always installed them. I too played with various versions of TVserver, backtracking roughly a month old (including the corresponding TVserver plugin for MP of course). Again, no difference. On the Codec side, no additional Mpeg2 codec was installed in the first stage of every platform test. Only when it turned out there was irrepearable sutter on a system, a single Cyberlink PowerDVD6 license was installed, to see if the stutter would be influenced by switching to that specific codec. It never had any impact.
I understand analogue maybe dead for many people/regions. It however is still quite alive here, and will remain so for several years to come, as DVB-T is totally underdevelopped here (2 channels only), and DVB-C is lacking so many channels of our region it can't reasonably be considered to replace analogue TV. Looking at your response, I'm somewhat inclined to consider the reason you lucky people are not having these issues could be because you're not using analogue based capture cards.
Execpt a full answer with asked logs sometime next week; I will take the "worst" machine to get you that info.
