[mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV

[David Whyte]

The myth box that is doing the encoding is a sempron 2400 with 512B
RAM (quite low specd).  The box doing the playing was a Celeron 1GHz,
which maxed out the CPU to play the video (I can play higher quality
divx's fine on that machine though).

Off the top of my head, my load average was about 1.80 across the
board whilst streaming.

I obviously don't want to up the CPU on that machine, but I could at a
pinch put mmore RAM in.  Do you think that would help?

Dave

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:48:00 -0800, Joshua Ebel <joshebel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What processor are you running on the Myth box? What Codec and VBR are you
> selecting? Are you recording or playing back on the Myth box at the same
> time? How much idle time is available on the CPU when playback is happening?
> 
> With my P3 1000 VLC maxes out the CPU. I am able to transcode and stream
> with no pausing... Unless I am playing back and recording at the same time.
> 
> I'm using XP with WMP 10 over 802.11b. Also using 500K and DIV3.
> 
> top - 09:44:06 up 18 days, 21:54,  4 users,  load average: 1.13, 0.68, 0.41
> Tasks:  85 total,   4 running,  81 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  98.0% user,   1.6% system,   0.0% nice,   0.3% idle
> Mem:    255396k total,   250536k used,     4860k free,    69372k buffers
> Swap:   923728k total,    66752k used,   856976k free,    66352k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  Command
> 
> 24251 www-data  18   0 18180  17m 2888 R 98.0  7.1   1:36.24 vlc
> 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 8
> model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
> stepping        : 10
> cpu MHz         : 996.703
> cache size      : 256 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 2
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
> pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
> bogomips        : 1985.74
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Joshua Ebel
> joshebel at gmail.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David Whyte
> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:23 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Fwd: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV
> 
> posted to the list incase anyone else can help!
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 00:18:24 +1000
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FW: New Source Forge Project MythStreamTV
> To: James Armstrong <james at thearmstrongs.org>
> 
> Sounds like we are at the same stage.
> 
> I am streaming to my Windows XP box and using Windows Media Player 10
> to view.  I am using an 11Mbs WiFi card and the myth box is wired into
> the router yet the video is continually pausing to buffer.  I am
> surprised it needs to do this given the clip is only playing at
> 245Kbs, and I can see my network is not being used to its full
> potential.  Is this just a Windows Media Player issue and if so what
> is a better viewer to use?
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:11:51 -0500, James Armstrong
> <james at thearmstrongs.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > David Whyte wrote:
> >
> > >James, do you understand the line in the installation README about
> > >configuring vlc and ffmpeg?  I think that is the problem I am having!
> > >
> > >I am currently getting....
> > >
> > >VLC already alive, I'm going to whack it. THE PROCESS I MEAN!
> > >Starting Stream of 1000_20050112140000_20050112150000.nuv
> > >VLC media player 0.7.2 Bond
> > >[00000213] dummy interface: Using the dummy interface module...
> > >[00000214] main input: playlist item
> > >`/myth/recordings/1000_20050112140000_20050112150000.nuv'
> > >[00000219] main private: creating httpd
> > >[00000226] mpeg_audio packetizer: MPGA channels:2 samplerate:48000
> bitrate:256
> > >[00000227] ffmpeg encoder error: cannot find encoder MPEG Audio layer
> 1/2/3
> > >[00000227] ffmpeg encoder error: cannot find encoder MPEG Audio layer
> 1/2/3
> > >[00000216] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot open encoder
> > >[00000216] stream_out_transcode private error: cannot create audio chain
> > >[00000226] main packetizer error: cannot create packetizer output
> > >
> > >I can't start the thing from the browser, I think it is a permissions
> > >problem (man I have heaps of those things) but I copy the command line
> > >and paste it in a terminal.  I also have to remove a '/' from the
> > >filename else I get a '//' created in the script.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > The only way I kind of got it half way working is to use port 8080 in
> > the install script / manually edit the webpage. The mythstream.php has
> > 8080 hardcoded in it. The errors for MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3 I have not
> > solved yet. I was able to test by making the AUDIO="$1" in the
> > mythstream.php script to AUDIO="" to not use an audio codec. This got
> > vlc working with video / no audio for now.
> >
> > - James
> >
> >
> 
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