When trying to watch movie trailers with the "My Trailers" plugin I am experiencing stuttering video, skipping audio, and occasional playback hangs that last several seconds. This happens regardless of what trailer I am attempting to watch.
There are no other applications attempting to use my internet connection, which is 8 Mbps DSL. Ping times to the server that the videos seem to be comming from are consistent around 100 ms. The hard drive that Media Portal is installed to is freshly defragmented.
Can anyone tell me where the root of this problem might be, or even suggest something I haven't thought of? Is there any way to set how much of a video is buffered before playback starts? I'm running out of ideas here.
Thanks in advance,
Spin
Here's my hardware setup.
TV-Server Version: TV Server? Whatever ships with 0.2.2.0 stable release
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.2.0
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: XP Pro
CPU Type: AMD Athlon X2 4400+
HDD: 1x Seagate 120gb, 4x Seagate 250gb (all SATA2)
Memory: 1GB PC3200
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Motherboard Chipset: nForce4
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: GeForce 7900 GTX
Video Card Driver: 93.71
Sound Card: Integrated
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: nForce 4 driver pack 6.86
1. TV Card: none
1. TV Card Type: none
MPEG2 Video Codec: not sure what you mean here
MPEG2 Audio Codec: or here
Satelite/CableTV Provider: none
HTPC Case: desktop
Cooling: custom
Power Supply: Antec 430
Remote: X10 ATI Model from AiW card
TV: monitor
TV - HTPC Connection: none
There are no other applications attempting to use my internet connection, which is 8 Mbps DSL. Ping times to the server that the videos seem to be comming from are consistent around 100 ms. The hard drive that Media Portal is installed to is freshly defragmented.
Can anyone tell me where the root of this problem might be, or even suggest something I haven't thought of? Is there any way to set how much of a video is buffered before playback starts? I'm running out of ideas here.
Thanks in advance,
Spin
Here's my hardware setup.
TV-Server Version: TV Server? Whatever ships with 0.2.2.0 stable release
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.2.0
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: XP Pro
CPU Type: AMD Athlon X2 4400+
HDD: 1x Seagate 120gb, 4x Seagate 250gb (all SATA2)
Memory: 1GB PC3200
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Premium
Motherboard Chipset: nForce4
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: GeForce 7900 GTX
Video Card Driver: 93.71
Sound Card: Integrated
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: nForce 4 driver pack 6.86
1. TV Card: none
1. TV Card Type: none
MPEG2 Video Codec: not sure what you mean here
MPEG2 Audio Codec: or here
Satelite/CableTV Provider: none
HTPC Case: desktop
Cooling: custom
Power Supply: Antec 430
Remote: X10 ATI Model from AiW card
TV: monitor
TV - HTPC Connection: none