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• 07-27-2008, 7:20 PM

  boe_d Joined on 12-14-2004, 11:07 PM Posts 17

  Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy Reply Contact I have a pretty large WMV file  - about 100MB at 1080i.    I don't seem to see a big difference in where it pauses if I just link to the file via http or if I use Windows Media services.  It will pause about every 10 seconds and rebuffer.   I have  a T3.   Any recommendations short of lowering the resolution?   I'm testing on right now when we have virtually no traffic on our network.    The server has just about everything I can find set for unlimited and cached.    The server has 24 GIGs of memory, a quad core 3 GHz processor and tons of fast storage.   Network, processor and memory utilization barely register when I playback a file.   My PC has a 5Mbit connection to the internet, a 3GHz core 2 processor, tons of free disk space and 2 GIGs of RAM and 512MB 8800 video card (no problem playing the file locally) - The most utilization I'm seeing is CPU at 24%., memory at 900MB and network  at 5%

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• 07-28-2008, 5:04 PM

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  Jimin_Gao Joined on 04-10-2008, 5:38 PM Posts 26	Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy Reply Contact Is your client PC connected to the internet or your local network?  Could you instead of playing back, try to do a "save as", and observe the download rate?

• 07-29-2008, 9:53 AM

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  boe_d Joined on 12-14-2004, 11:07 PM Posts 17

  Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy Reply Contact Thanks for the help.   I do not how to set windows media services to allow me to enable save as within windows media player.   I would like to enable that feature when I send mms links.  I can't figure out the save as so I just use ftp to download a file - it is at 660 KB/s if that helps.    Lower resolution files play fine, but the 1080i ones are very choppy.

• 07-31-2008, 8:40 PM

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  Jimin_Gao Joined on 04-10-2008, 5:38 PM Posts 26	Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy Reply Contact I think you probably do not have enough bandwidth to view the 1080i version smoothly.  Do you know the encoded bit rate of those?

• 08-01-2008, 4:22 PM

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  boe_d Joined on 12-14-2004, 11:07 PM Posts 17	Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy Reply Contact 8447kbps

• 08-01-2008, 8:11 PM

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  Jimin_Gao Joined on 04-10-2008, 5:38 PM Posts 26	Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy Reply Contact The bandwidth required is higher than your actual 660KB/s=5280kbps.

• 08-05-2008, 10:03 AM

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  boe_d Joined on 12-14-2004, 11:07 PM Posts 17	Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy Reply Contact Thanks - I get the same issue when I'm on the local network where I get much higher than 660.

• 08-06-2008, 1:57 PM

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  samzhang Joined on 05-05-2008, 7:45 PM Posts 26	Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy Reply Contact Can you use task manager to check the incoming bandwidth when you play the file from remote server? -Sam