1ghz
512 Ram

No matter what i set the streaming settings to i just can't get mystreamTV to work well, it will buffer, then play for 30sec to a minute and need to buffer again.

I upgraded to VLC 8.5 hoping this would resolve the issue however now its even worse, instead of needing to buffer it just slows down and the audio goes HORRIBLE , i really hope i dont need to do a full reinstall to go back to 8.1 ( i think thats the version that was installed before).

Anyone know any performance tweaks for this? It would be so nice to have this work correctly.

are you streaming on your LAN or out to the internet. if you are streaming tot he Internet, I suspect that the weak link is the upload capacity of your broadband conection.

I guess the on-the-fly transcoding could be CPU bound, check with top when streaming for CPU capacity

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R5F1 - Dell P4 2.4Ghz 500MB - PVR250 x 2 - GeForce FX 5200 - Onboard sound/NIC 80GB ATA/250GB ATA/400GB SATA

i use a 6mbit cable link (512kb up) i lowered all the streaming to the bare minmum (i think its like 128 vid and 38 sound) and still had the same issue, as a test i went over LAN and it would just slow down (didn't buffer) but just slowed the video source (weird i know) i checked with ps -aux when streaming and CPU load is at 60-70% , tried adding in nice -20 infront of VLC on the shell script to have it run at higher priority with no luck.
oh and its on R5D1, had the same issue with R5B7 though to.

I have been having the same problem since I switched to R5D1. MythStream worked just fine through an internet stream using previous versions. Now it plays fine for 30seconds then buffers constantly. I have not upgraded any packages on my system, only custom scripts, none of which are related to transcoding or vlc.

I will have to check cpu usage to make sure (this is a slower machine 800MHZ). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am running a slow machine also.. 800 Mhz and i have never gotten it to work (granted i did not try very hard)... I just assumed the CPU was too slow. If anyone gets this to work on a slow machine.. I would be very interested it knowing what they did. I would argue against the theory that the problem is with the network upload speed.. I tried running it on a local network.. no bandwidth/flow controls.... and still the same problem. I cant remember exactly what my CPU usage was showing.. but I want to say I was in the upper 70's.

OK, I did a simple streaming test. I tried almost every codec quality option from 500K-128K and all audio rates, DIV3 vs WMV2 as well as frame rates.
This playback problem happens on every setting.

I streamed video while viewing top through ssh from a remote site with a fast net connection (I can transfer a file between these two sites at around 50-70KBps on the low end). And still the buffering problem. The myth cpu tops out at around 87% cpu usage but generally does not stay that high.

Now granted, if I select a very high quality codec, buffereing is almost immediate, but even on the low end, I get maybe 20-30 seconds of video then it starts skipping. I have even tried different client players such as media player classic, and windows media player, just to see if the problem was in the player.

This problem is not unique to this one test location.

Any Ideas?

I dont have anything great.

couple thoughts:

vlc has a verbosity flag you can try for info


Is there anything else going on your LAN to bog down traffic?

I have much better luck using the vlc client on the windows box as the player. not that it sould effect the stream, but a 'grasping at straws' thought.

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R5F1 - Dell P4 2.4Ghz 500MB - PVR250 x 2 - GeForce FX 5200 - Onboard sound/NIC 80GB ATA/250GB ATA/400GB SATA

Ont thing i forgot to mention is that I have 125 Megs of ram.. and I am thinking that could be a problem seeing most of it is being used without the stream.. i am not sure though if streaming uses much ram or not though...