Video Server

[ThaMan]

Is anyone here using a Video Server in their house to play DVD's that are stored on it in ISO format? I'm trying to do that, but it seems that I am having bandwidth problems. How much bandwidth do I need to play a DVD over the network? I thought 802.11b would be fast enough, but it looks like a slideshow. I'm connected at 54 Megs via wireless.

Could it be video card problems? I am using an OLD video card in the system I'm testing because my Media Center crashed.

[onstill]

Wireless is the suck. I stream uncompressed (dvd quality) over hard lines. Also if your not sure about the system running the actual movie copy one local and see how it does. easiest way to tell if thats your bottleneck.

[Deviq]

What are you using to stream the Iso files? I tried to do that once and found out the hard way that the program i use had to transcode the files on the fly. Even with a wired connection I had horrible playback. I've since switched to ripping everything into AVC and it's been working great.

[ThaMan]

I use Slysoft's program. Virtual CD.

I'm not familiar with AVC. I have the ability to rip to MPG. Maybe I should try that.

[Deviq]

AVC is h.264... basically another version of MP4 but the lastest version. Its what most small devices are using now. ( Iphone, Zune, and the like) If you want to try it you can download Mediacoder (http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/) for free and I can send you the profile I use. It might be a good idea to rip just a few minutes of a movie first to try out the settings first so I don't have to waste all that time ripping an entire dvd to find out it didn't work.

[ThaMan]

Thanks! I'll check it out today.