[mythtv-users] automatically launching VideoLan or Windows Media Player with .NUV files?

[Raphael Pooser]

Torbjörn Jansson wrote:

> 2005/11/21, Raphael Pooser <rpooser at gmail.com <mailto:rpooser at gmail.com>>:
>
>     It seems that the only way you can stream things is if you use mythweb
>     or if you set up video lan to stream things on the host machine
>     and then
>     receive it on your windows machine, is that right?  So, using
>     dsmyth and
>     then just clicking on a file on windows explorer from a shared
>     directory
>     on a mythtv machine is totally different.  I'm asking because
>     right now
>     when I view video on my windows machine it stutters at times and
>     plays
>     with low framerate.  The sound continues on at normal speed and the
>     video completely goes out of sync in a very short time.  It seems that
>     my video files (about 8000Kbits/sec for rtjpeg, 3000Kbps for
>     mpeg4) are
>     taking too much bandwidth as windows is treating them as if they were
>     local files and it can't get the data off the myth machine fast
>     enough,
>     since the myth machine is on 802.11g wireless.  Even then 8000kbps
>     shouldn't be enough to cause any problems though so I don't fully
>     understand it.  Lastly, VLS cannot play rtjpeg yet it seems, even with
>     the dsmyth filters installed, while windows media player can.  Does
>     anyone have a good player suggestion they use for this stuff?
>     Raphael
>
>
> asuming its the network speed that is your problem, if you want to 
> experiment a little there is one or two thing you coud try.
>
> in the configuration program for the dsmyth filters, there is a 
> checkbox called something like "always open files from backend" (can't 
> remeber exactly what i named it), make sure that box is checked.
> now, when you open a nuv file (nupplevideo type, not mpeg) from a 
> samba share, the file will be streamed from the backend instead 
> (transparent to the mediaplayer).
> this should use less bandwidth than playing it directly from samba share.
>
> if you still have problems, you can try to increase the size of the 
> local ringbuffer in the dsmyth config program, maybe somewere around 
> 500Mb to 1gb or something like that (make sure you have enough 
> diskspace for it).
> when you start playback hit pause and wait a while for the ringbuffer 
> to fill up, then resume playback and check if there is any difference.
>
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yeah, both good suggestions.
As I just recently upgraded my windows machine and reinstalled windows 
and then dsmyth, I cannot try these yet because now any player will 
crash when trying to play nuv files!  I suspected the open from backend 
would help, and maybe transcoding to mpeg4 with smaller file sizes.  The 
crashing problem is a windows thing, so once I solve that I will retest 
it.  thanks
Raphael