Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
View Single Post
abbra is offline abbra
2011-09-11 , 10:42
Posts: 182 | Thanked: 540 times | Joined on Aug 2009 @ Finland
#5613
Originally Posted by jalyst View Post
@abbra

Do you think 1080p would be feasible when using 802.11an + DLNA?
e.g. uncompressed high-profile MKV's w/"HD" audio. (basically BD rips)
I know in-theory (so long as one has a good WiFi set-up) the bandwidth should be there for 1x "HD" stream.
Just not sure exactly how DLNA comes into play, & how smooth/reliable it'd be in practice.
There are two big "ifs" here:
  1. Available network bandwidth, as you noted. In a typical home environment one could put a phone close to WiFi router, for example, to increase reliability and medium performance. It is a lifehack, of course.
  2. Need to re-encode streamed content. There are different modes in DLNA and if N9/50 would be used as DLNA Media Server, it still might be forced to re-encode the content if DLNA Media Player (TV side) does not support codec in question. For example, when I stream audio to my PopCorn Hour, I have to re-encode it always to dumbest possible uncompressed format that PCH advertises during negotiation phase because it does not accept anything else. It is for audio, in video cases it happily takes 1080p MKV. For 1080p N9/50 simply has not enough juice to run re-encoding. 720p -> SD is fine though.
 

The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to abbra For This Useful Post: