[mythtv-users] increasing streaming buffer on the frontend

[Nick Morrott]

On 23/04/07, Groepaz <groepaz at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> hy,
>
> i played with using a wlan connection for one frontend the other day and to my
> surprise that worked out just fine... except for occasional stutter every now
> and then (depending on how far i am moving from the AP). the logical solution
> to get rid of that would be to use a (much) larger streaming buffer on the
> frontend, but i couldnt find any options to configure this. does anyone have
> an idea how to do that (other than hacking the source ofcourse, which i dont
> really feel like atm) ?

One tip that was posted to the list recently was to configure your
wireless card to connect at less than maximum speed to the AP -
perhaps 48Mb/s instead of the optimum 54Mb/s for 802.11g, and see if
this helps. If your wireless card is always trying to negotiate a
54MB/s connection it may not always be successful, causing a drop and
a stutter. You may get a more 'solid' connection at a lower speed
which is still plenty fast enough to handle playback.

Nick
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