My 458MB home movie (slide show with music) just streamed perfectly from my digital media library through my wireless router to the WDTVLIVEPLUS, using Digital Media Servers on the Player. I first had tried Network shares, but the movie “bogged down” about 1 minute in; images were very slow, and the audio dropped out.
Yesterday, both Network Shares and Media Servers “bogged down” at about the halfway mark (7 minutes into 14 minute movie). Today, I made sure all the RF sources in the house were off except the PC with the media library, the WDTVLIVEPLUS, the surround sound receiver, and the HDTV. As I mentioned above, I got a good result with Media Servers, but Network Shares bogged down.
I can play purchased music videos in a 18 minute playlist without any problems, (regardless of how many other RF sources are active in the house) so I must be having bandwidth and/or signal strength issues with my .wmv movie.
Based on my description, can someone describe what is going on in terms of the physics? , i.e., is there a cache somewhere that gets depleted? The router is an E3000; is there anything that could be done to increase its data rate, for instance…could I improve things with a repeater or booster (which is best?). Thanks.
