here are a few cents of mine: i ran my SC7 on windows 2003 server on a really resource-starved 700MHz PIII - equivalent with 1GB RAM (a VIA ITX system). playing apple worked just fine (even with mov123) *unless* my server was busy doing something else. symptoms:
playing an apple track the first time took about 20-25 seconds to commence playback started then stuttered or stopped after some seconds good wlan signal (40-60%) network diagnostics showed nothing untoward buffer dropping to zero i discovered my server was sometimes so busy that it could not decode apple and re-code to FLAC fast enough. (i used the windows performance monitor for this). using mov123, my via cpu would clock in at about 40% (!) cpu usage to decode aac and re-code to flac... i changed the transcoding settings to output WAV, which reduced the cpu cycles enough (to about 30%) to provide a reasonably steady stream *most* of the time. other times, i just had to shut down some cpu/ram hogging apps (emule was the worst, keeping the web-UI open second!) to make it work properly. does your vista machine seem sluggish sometimes? and did you try connecting through a wire? if that works fine, you obviously have a WLAN problem. if not, you have a server problem. -- dcote ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcote's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53021 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
