<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Phill Edwards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philledwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">philledwards@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":2ke">My first thoughts are that there's a network bottleneck. MPEG2<br>
recordings are large and if you're getting pauses while it buffers all<br>
the time it could be that it can't stuff the video down the network<br>
fast enough for your frontend. Are you sure both ends are connected at<br>
100Mbps? If one end was only 10Mbps then it would surely struggle.</div></blockquote></div><br>I fixed the issue with my Windows 8 box. I had the machine connected to a wireless router (cabled), then the router was connected to the main switch. I changed this to have the win8 box connected directly to the switch, and it worked. I get a buffering only if i skip ahead like 5 or 6 times in a row, but nothing on normal playback.<div>
<br></div><div>I haven't had time to mess with the pi, but I am going to try overclocking to 900, if that doesn't work i will try to install xbian 1a4, because that has been successful for people.</div>