On the videocenter, I prefer streaming than dl and watch. Because streaming you do not have to wait for the whole file to dl (could be 15 min for a large file) and do not leave a copy on the 770 and takes up space. However, when streaming does not work, it hangs the 770. And during the early phase of hanging, like a couple of seconds, you can get out by pressing the escape button. Once it passed the early phase, you have to take out the battery.

At first I thought ALL the problems of streaming failure are:
- loss streaming signal, either the source or the receive end, router problems
- 770 problem, software or hardware

Well, I never thought about the file itself could be a problem. I dl about 20 of these podcastshows, podcastTV whatevers, and watch them under my PC, it turns out 6 out of 20 are 'damaged files'. Very interesting.

In other words, the VC's erractic behavior, which most blame on beta release, 770 shortcomings etc, in fact, is an inherent problems of encoding, the file itself could be problematic. Or, my router indeed is unstable 6 out of 20 times...........



bun