couple of questions

here's a couple of questions to those who have more experience

1) I am currently using a CIFS share on Win XP for directstream recording. After recording ~8Mb there's a message on screen that data could not be written fast enough. However, recording continues into another file and so on. Will using NFS improve things?

2) My ts streams play perfect on PC (mediaplayer classic), but there's lots of stuttering when playing them with Movieplayer from the CIFS share. When I remux the ts to an mpeg file, playback works fine, but this is play file via VLC. How come? Can NFS improve things here as well?

3) Recording ts streams with JtG streamserver and udrec 0.12f works best for me. There are some numeric parameters associated with udrec in JtG. Are the default numbers optimal or can tweaking these values improve the recording?

4) What value should the "use PMT" option in the misc settings menu on the box have for optimal streaming?

Thx to all who make using the dbox so much fun!

JockyW

Reading and writing on a NFS-share is faster than on CIFS-shares.

There is a big thread on NFS, CIFS and network, but it is written entirely in German. To sum it up, petgun is collecting information on users network-benchmarks and their hard- and software.

If you want to have a look at it, here it is.

Beitrag von **Tommy** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 16:44

1)
CIFS is not optimal for streaming in the moment. The best results are reachable with a NFS mount. It's enaugh to setup a minimal- Server like http://www.eisfair.org on a 100-200MHZ Pentium

2) The freezing issue could cause from a bad record (CIFS record). For movieplayer also NFS should be first choice. If you record on an NFS mount you can directly playback from this mount with movieplayer. (SPTS have to be "on")

I'd made only CIFS tests until version 1.8.1. In YADI version 1.9.1 are some CIFS related improvements are realized. Maybe you should check a version above with your CIFS settings. (see also changelog)

cheers,
Tommy

Here is the English Translation:

petgun hat geschrieben:

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   Name     |R-CIFS|W-CIFS|R-NFS |W-NFS |    Comment 
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petgun      |6,00  |8,4   |8,32  |9,00  |rsize=32k,100mbit,Switch, Windows XP, SFU 
Tattergreis | -    | -    |7,37  |8,30  |wsize=32k,100mbit,Switch*2, Linux FLI4L 
sky         |5,9   |8,1   | -    | -    |100mbit, Switch, W2K 
MOhlmann    |5,9   |8,3   | -    | -    |NIC_PC:???, X-cable, XP 
Treito      | -    | -    |9,2   |9,3   |100mbit, Switch, Suse 9.1 
tHec        | -    | -    |8,3   |9,2   |rsize=32k,100mbit, Switch, W2k, SFU 
tha_haze    | -    | -    |8,0   |7,6   |100mbit,Switch, Eisfair Linux 
Pedant      |5,8   |6,4   |7,9   |8,3   |100mbit,Switch, XP, Allegro 2.0 
someone_01  | -    | -    |6,9   |7,8   |W2K, Omni-NFS 4.2 
Schtonk     | -    | -    |9,76  |8,16  |r/w-size=32k,100mbit,X-cable,Bridge,XP, SFU 
dhd         |7,01  |8,1   |9,01  |9,03  |rsize=32k,100mbit,Switch*3,XP,True Grid

Beitrag von **MajorK** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 16:57

For using NFS, try Microsoft SFU. Once configured, it's nearly as easy as using CIFS (i.e. activating a share with a contextmenu in explorer and so on).

HTH,
Major K.

Beitrag von **petgun** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 17:11

hi,
you should use NFS. If you have W2kpro/XPpro give SFU (from MS$ but free) a try...for me the best! There is a smaller (20MB instead of 220MB)SFU-NFS-Server only Installer on DietmarW's Website http://tuxbox-images.mine.nu/dietmarw/html/mirror/ > Allgemeine Tools und Enpacker/S_F_U__N_F_S.ZIP with Instructions from Pedant.

cu,
peter

Works fantastic. This is great

One question left: what about "use PMT"

cheers, JockyW

Beitrag von **Treito** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 19:01

JOCKYW2001 hat geschrieben: One question left: what about "use PMT"

Once enabled the d-box should automatically update the soundsubchannels on change. This option is only required at "Neutrino".

(Ich hoffe das Englisch war jetzt nicht zu grausam, bin ein wenig aus der Übung

)

Treito hat geschrieben:Once enabled the d-box should automatically update the soundsubchannels on change. This option is only required at "Neutrino".

Incorrectly!

Please read the following explanations from Npq:

http://forum.tuxbox-cvs.sourceforge.net ... hp?t=31506

regards
mash

Beitrag von **Treito** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 19:36

Okay audiosubchannels...

Treito hat geschrieben:Okay audiosubchannels...

?

Hast Du mal die Erklärung von Npq gelesen?

Gruß
mash

Beitrag von **Treito** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 19:51

Du meinst das mit den AudioPIDs?

Habe das eben überflogen...

Nachtrag:
Oh gesehen...

Okay, new try:

The option "PMT_Update" tries to detect any change of the subchannels. This option is only required for "Neutrino". Otherwise you have to zap between the channels.
Enigma does not require this option.

So korrekt Mash?

Daumen hoch!

Gruß
mash

Beitrag von **Treito** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 20:09

Gut

Hatte nur gelesen, was Du selber egschrieben hattest, da stand auch nur was von AudioPID's

Ich hoffe, das Englisch war zumindest halbwegs korrekt

Ich hatte schon mal überlegt, ob ich's ändere. Nur dann wird andererseits nicht klar, dass es eben alle PIDs betrifft, und das ist ja schon ein Unterschied.

Gruß
mash

Beitrag von **Treito** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 20:14

Ja das stimmt schon. Naja ich bin eh zu Enigma gewechselt...

Treito hat geschrieben:Ja das stimmt schon. Naja ich bin eh zu Enigma gewechselt...

Mein Beileid...

Gruß
mash

Beitrag von **Treito** » Mittwoch 8. September 2004, 20:23

mash4077 hat geschrieben: Mein Beileid...

Wenn man mit der d-box nur Fernsehen und Streamen will, ist Enigma mittlerweile klar die bessere Wahl.
Auf Shoutcast und den Mist kann ich getrost verzichten, dafür habe ich lieber PMT-Informationen im Stream und eine Unterkanalauswahl bei der Timeraufnahme.