playing .iso files over a network... dvd server?

[natgun]

im looking into building a DVD server to house all my movies.. ive been trying to play back an .ISO mounted over my wireless 802.11g network with powerdvd. at first everything is fine, but about 10 minutes into the movie things start to stutter, and powerdvd will freeze soon after.

has anyone built such a setup successfully? is it simply a matter of my wireless not keeping up with the DVD stream?

[cypher_soundz]

i'm no expert in video streaming , but my guess is that your network bottle necks at 10mins and cant handle the data at such a high datarate. if you try and copy a dvd (or any data of 4.7gb-9gb) my guess is that it will take long than 2 hours on a wireless network (strength of signal and jsut speed of netowrk in general) have you tried VLC ? http://www.videolan.org/
I hear it works quiet well, this is just my 2 cents .
something to try whiel you wait for a little more information...;)
Regards
cyph

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[natgun]

thats the thing i dont understand, 802.11g is 54mb per second, and a dvd is at most 12.. even if i wasnt getting a decent connection, which i know i am, it still shouldnt dip down below 12..

[buzzqw]

54mega bit
not 54 mega byte...

BHH

[nexx]

54mbit is still more than enough for a DVD?

Friend solved this issue by using MPlayer with a cache of 10mb (-cache 10000).

[natgun]

yea megabit, hence the lowercase b... dvds are max 12 megabits per second streams...

it still doesnt add up.

[cypher_soundz]

have you tried video lan client? I must ask , have you tried playing the film normally, locally and not via network? also what is the spec of the 2 pc's that you are using?
Regards
cyph

[natgun]

playing the iso on my main computer works fine..

the file server is a 3.2ghz p4, and the HTPC is a 2.8ghz p4... no shortage of horsepower on either end.

[Sirber]

54mbps - ~30% headers - distance from AP

[masken]

Yeah, you should consider yourself very lucky if you first of all get 50% free traffic rate on a 54mbit connection. That means 27mbit. At most. Then add encryption, gitter, and other disturbances from your building (if you live in a concrete house, all the reinforcements within the walls that reverses waves etc etc). On top of that, consistency of cheap solutions like D-Link and Netgear isn't exactly anything to rely on. The antenna dbi is also very low on this kind of hardware. I'd say concurrent transfers over longer periods of time on this kind of equipment is close to 0.

You always get what you pay for ;) Especially with WLAN solutions. Also remember that on a WLAN connection, the total bandwidth is shared among all connected, ie; it's "hubbed". WLAN isn't exactly the most optimal solution for high performance networking.