Wired Streaming Speed Limitations

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In this  post,  “ivork” says this about the latest firmware:

“I did notice that my tranfer rate increased slightly. It went from 4.5 Mb/s to 5Mb/s when copying videos to it.”

Does the Live Hub stream from a network drive (to HDMI) faster than this?  Does the LIve Plus do any better?

I want to play my 24Mbps AVCHD content from a network drive and need a solution.  Copying the files to the disk of the hub is unappealing given the rate that “ivork” quoted.

Thanks!

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As long as you’re doing a WIRED network connection, 24 Mbit/second won’t be an issue.

Some people can do this via WiFi as well, but not many…

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I found this quote from a review  here

“Transferring very large files takes time even on a wired network, but we were sorely disappointed in this device’s file-transfer performance given that it’s the first media player we’ve seen to boast Gigabit Ethernet. It took nearly two hours to copy a 9GB DVD ISO from our Windows Home Server machine to the WD TV Live Hub’s internal hard drive, indicating a data-transfer rate of just over 10Mb/s.”

I did the calculation, and the 10Mb/s quoted is 10 megabits per second.  So unless the network interface is faster streaming, then maybe I’m SOL.

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That’s just flat wrong.   It can get close to 100 megabits per second.

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Drat.  Judging from the specs here, it looks it may not play the video anyway which is 1920x1080 60i AVCHD, and1920x1080 30p AVCHD.

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For what it’s worth I meant to say I had a 5MB/s (Megabyte) copy rate. That would probably equate to 40 Mb/s (Megabits). Keep in mind that I was also using a wireless connection. I’m also not sure how this would relate to streaming. Good Luck!