Hi,
I’d really appreceiate folks 2 cents on what my best bet is here. The reason I bought a WDTV is to stream home videos from my Panasonic HD Camcorder to my TV.
The result in all cases is (sadly)…
- there’s a nice long pause before the video starts
- it plays beautifully for about 10-15 seconds with audio
- then it plays but stuttering, almost in slow motion - as if it’s only playing every 10th frame. Also, the audo cuts out.
- once it starts stuttering it never goes back. Even if I pause the playback for a while, it never recovers
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The media resides on a drive in my Windows 7 desktop - i7 quad core, pretty speedy
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WDTV is on a wired 100 Mb connection. I’ve seen throughputs of up to ~ 60 Mb just copying files from a laptop to this PC over the same connection ( I borrowed the same cable…)
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I’ve tried TVersity, PS3 Media Server (with and without VLC installed), and just a network share
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I’ve tried the following firmwares 1.06.16 , 1.05.04_B, and 1.04.31_B
The twist is that when I first got the box, I plugged it in quick and dirty just to try things out - and things worked! I’d say I was hallucinating but my wife tells me she saw it too. I had upgraded the firware to 1.5 (I think), and things worked with TVersity (it could never connect to the Windows 7 media server). Then I took it all apart. After I got back from vacation I set it up in a more permanent fashion and now… bummer. I tried that original configuration… but no luck.
Any ideas? I think this should work! WDTV seemed like my best bet stream these without jumping through all kinds of hoops.
Thanks in advance…
Here’s the vitals on one of these files:
General
ID : 1 (0x1)
Complete name : Y:\Video\home movies\201105\20110509_201713.m2ts
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 201 MiB
Duration : 1mn 48s
Overall bit rate : 15.6 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 18.0 Mbps
Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 1mn 48s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 14.7 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 16.8 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.236
Stream size : 189 MiB (94%)
Audio
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 1mn 48s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 256 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Delay relative to video : -67ms
Stream size : 3.30 MiB (2%)
Text
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Duration : 1mn 47s
Delay relative to video : -67ms