RE: Re: Basic questions about "video streaming"

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>]

Phil

As the resident 'video streaming' guru, can I ask a few questions ?

Firstly - Lil Movies looks good, I shall also be giving this a go - also
its
written by one of the gods of the Pinball world, so cant be bad :)
Second - how do you rip your Blu-Rays ? - I currently convert the main
feature to .ts which creates a single 25-40gig file.
Third - Do you suffer from any slow downs/stuttering when playing hi-def
stuff - or is it a problem just with me - I cant work out if it due to my
Drobo being connected by USB to my old HTPC, or maybe my network switch.
Saturday I watched a rip of Ghost Town HD on A100 and it was great, then
watched Mummy 3 HD rip on A-100 which was perfect, yesterday I tried to
watch another HD rip and it was jumping/slowing generally looking crap on
the A-100, tried it in Plex and was marginally better, though still had a
couple of pauses and then a few seconds to catch itself up. This is totally
at odds with previous experience on A-100 as I've never had issues, though
I've yet to watch a HD film perfectly with Plex on a Mac Mini.
Fourth - Do you rip straight to the NAS or to a local drive first - wasn't
sure if its possible to do it that way.
Fifth - Thanks for the consultancy the cheque is in the post :)

Oh and I've now tried Boxee which seems a much better 'XMBC' solution for
the Mac - It's stripped away all the stuff I don't want in Plex and made it
far more intuative :)




Dean.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Phil Harris
Sent: 13 April 2009 16:47
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Basic questions about "video streaming"

I'm using "My Lil Movies Jukebox" - I did try YAMJ and that was
fine but
MLMJB is better - it does need "MovieCollectorz" (which is a pay
for bit of
software) and although the author of MLMJB doesn't cripple the app or
charge
for its download he does say that he wants a contribution for it (which
seems fair)...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of rb_ziggy
> Sent: 13 April 2009 13:37
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Basic questions about "video
streaming"
>
> Paul
>
> Could you point me towards that custom UI for popcorn hour.
> I'mlooking for something a bit nicer than the standard UI - one that
> perhaps can display cover art.  But it seems a bit difficult to teack
> down good UIs from the popcorn forum.
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Bendall" <paul@...>
wrote:
> >
> > I would recommend Slysoft AnyDVD as well (it can also rip
Blu-ray),
> > I
> use it to create the raw Video_TS structure. I then use Handbrake to
> transcode the raw data into streamable h.264 format.
> >
> > My media centre software is GBPVR which can also stream live TV
and
> act as a PVR solution for recording TV prgrammes with the use of
> capture cards.
> >
> > I then stream to a Popcorn Hour A-110 which has a custom UI
written
> by one of the contributors to GBPVR. I can browse the DVD collection,
> recorde TV programmes or watch Live TV.
> >
> > In addition I have PS3 Media Server which allows me to stream the
> h264 files out to a Playstation 3 (PS3 doesn't support h264 so the
> media server takes care of on the fly transcoding to a format the PS3
> does support)
> >
> > Couple of observations, for timely transcoding of DVDs and then
re-
> transcoding on the fly requires a fairly modern and powerful PC. Mine
> is a Intel Core2 Quad 2.5GHz based machine, you could probably get
> away with a Dual Core Core2. If you are going to stream video I
> wouldn't bother with wireless go wired.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
>
>
>
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