Notices

Open networks connections
click right button to your internet connection
properties->advanced>settings>exceptions>add program

Or you can go to
Control panel -> windows firewall

have you even tried to find it ? have you sp3 installed?

Right now, it looks like I have Service Pack 1 since I just reformatted the whole thing.

Control Panel doesn't show Windows Firewall, but I think it does after the update manager does it's thing, which it currently is doing at the moment.

Are you referring to this?



Thanks.

Ok looks like your windows is outdated. Install sp3.

It should look like pictures on bottom on this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...nfirewall.mspx

Maybe it has been covered already, but I suspect that my vlc/ffmpeg is overloading the cpu when transcoding x264 to mp2v (asf container). And I do get stuttering video.
Using 'top' I can see that the cpu peaks at around 100% while streaming.

What could I do to improve the performance?

My server is maybe not the best to do these things. It's a AMD athlon 3500+ at 2.2Ghz, 4528 BogoMIPS.
I'm running ubuntu (x86_64) and I did NOT compile ffmpeg separately like suggested in the wiki (lazy, yes). I'm using the repository version for now.

So the question is, compiling ffmpeg using the guide, does this optimize the code for the cpu it is compiled under? Is it a lot of gain in compiling it myself?
Is there anything else I can do...I don't think its a bandwidth problem in my case. Couldn't it make use of the gpu (because it DOES have an nvidia 7600 card) some way to accelerate the decoding?

This smells like: Go out and by new hardware....right?

Larswad,
Hmm I have Pentium 4 3 GHz and i just lowered resolution and bitrate for n900 profile because my computer choke on x264 720p transcoding. IMHO I don't recognize much difference with 640x384 resolution when compared to 800x480 when watching movies.

But vlc/ffmpeg could probably be optimized somehow but i think that in my case there is so much to optimize (50-60% faster) that i don't care and lowering transcoding settings is good trade-off.

IIRC beta vlc has some acceleration going on but don't know how it really works on linux (it probably comes also down to how well drivers are supporting all the bells and whistles) or Windows. OR is it able to use GPU accel. at all when transcoding.

.edit
I have win xp sp3, Vlc 1.0.5, newest knots2 from git.

..edit
http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_GPU_Decoding

I wondered that myself, and asked over at the Videolan forum:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic....=75434&start=0

Nice Wildt, I was sure it wouldn't help with transcoding, but I'm glad to be proven wrong. Too bad OS X doesn't seem to work yet.

Thanks, so it appears to be able to.
So I guess I should upgrade vlc then (and ffmpeg?).
Sounds promising...have you tested it?

Well, sorta... I tested knots on my gaming rig, which has a nVidia 285GTX card in it - and with really heavy h264 files the cpu utilization was surprisingly low, so my guess is that it actually does use the GPU.

But I reckon I could try uninstalling the nvidia drivers and try again while observing the cpu load on the same files...

Thanks for the help, slender.

Upgrading to service pack 3 was all that was needed.

Hey ukki, are there any websites at all that are available to you in Finland that allow streaming of TV shows, sports games, cartoons, international news, etc., somewhat in the same spirit of hulu.com?

I'm still curious if video streaming can be captured in real time by VLC so the output goes directly to the tablet and not the desktop.

I would think that would be one hairy monster of unhappiness to program though.