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%
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?
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.
boe_d
23 Posts
Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy
Jul 27, 2008 11:20 PM|LINK
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%
IIS 7.0 Windows Media Services Streaming Choppy
Jimin_Gao
54 Posts
Microsoft
Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy
Jul 28, 2008 09:04 PM|LINK
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?
boe_d
23 Posts
Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy
Jul 29, 2008 01:53 PM|LINK
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.
Jimin_Gao
54 Posts
Microsoft
Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy
Aug 01, 2008 12:40 AM|LINK
I think you probably do not have enough bandwidth to view the 1080i version smoothly. Do you know the encoded bit rate of those?
boe_d
23 Posts
Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy
Aug 01, 2008 08:22 PM|LINK
8447kbps
Jimin_Gao
54 Posts
Microsoft
Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy
Aug 02, 2008 12:11 AM|LINK
The bandwidth required is higher than your actual 660KB/s=5280kbps.
boe_d
23 Posts
Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy
Aug 05, 2008 02:03 PM|LINK
Thanks - I get the same issue when I'm on the local network where I get much higher than 660.
samzhang
249 Posts
Microsoft
Re: Windows Media Streaming - playback VERY choppy
Aug 06, 2008 05:57 PM|LINK
Can you use task manager to check the incoming bandwidth when you play the file from remote server?