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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2008-02-01 , 16:49
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Originally Posted by b0n0 View Post
I am actually looking for Video on Demand and am using Helix Producer for encoding and the Helix server for the videos to reside on.
Understood. That's why I questioned your statement that you're attempting RMVB streaming. You shouldn't be creating or using RMVB files if your goal is to stream the media over RTSP.

Originally Posted by b0n0 View Post
But when I encode videos with a target bitrate of 200kbps and higher, they play perfectly fine on the player locally, but stutter badly when streamed.
I'll try to test this out as soon as I get a chance. All the Real files on my server are MBR, and I'd like to encode a range of single rate clips so I can see where Media Player's performance drops off. I suspect my results will match yours, but tests with a second Helix server and tablet will help if we need to take this to bugzilla.

Originally Posted by b0n0 View Post
Even the N800 is streaming video well with the mediaserv (768kbps avi)
But I need to have this quality with real media.
May I inquire as to why you need to use Real? As a quick test I just had Media Player begin streaming an MPEG-4 file I recently uploaded to my Helix server. I didn't watch the full hour+ of video, but the first few minutes looked good, and the clip was encoded for 768kbps connections.

I have a mix of MPEG-4, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media clips on my Helix server. Helix doesn't work well with MBR Windows Media files or MPEG-4 Part 10, and Media Player doesn't grok QuickTime, but that still leaves some non-Real media formats the two can agree upon.
 

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