[mythtv-users] Am I running out of bandwitdth?

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On Feb 7, 2007, at 10.38, David Campbell wrote:

> I use MythVideo for streaming Mpegs, and DVD ISO's from NFS to my  
> mythbox.
>
> Sometimes the playback stutters.  There is nothing to suggest that the
> mythfrontend is running out of cpu (it's an AMD XP 3200) so I am
> wondering if badwisth is the issue:
>
> My mythbox is connected over 802g via an ethernet bridge  - I get  
> about
> 1.5 MB/sec (12 Mbit/sec) reading from NFS.  Surely this is enough
> bandwidth even for DVDs?

Theoretically, it's enough bandwidth. I haven't seen any DVDs over 9  
Mbits (I could be wrong, though) But is that a steady 12 Mbits, or is  
it an average? Does this include overhead for NFS? Is there anything  
else on the Wireless? Anything else running at 2.4 GHz? A microwave?  
Are you pulling 12 Mbits when you're over near your front-end?

> is there any value in experimenting with using Xine as the engine?

Xine does have some things to offer, like menus...
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