On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Hans Fugal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you can watch stuff you recorded with the PVR-350 smoothly but not > e.g. YouTube? >
Correct. I first tried it out with Hulu (low res) and the sound is fine, but the video stutters. I then tried it with YouTube (since you can push pause to buffer it) and the same problem occurred. > Try watching your streaming video and watching > the page ins/outs numbers in top and/or the hard disk light. If they're > going wild (i.e. you're swapping) then you need more RAM. Otherwise you > don't. I'll check this out tonight, along with what my video card is. Thanks for the tip. > > Unless you're streaming video that's of higher quality than that > captured by your tuner card, I bet your problem isn't guts at all but > network-related. Maybe you need a bigger buffer or fatter pipe. > My roommates don't have issues with using their laptops -- and since YouTube is buffered I didn't think that this would be the root cause. I'm not sure what kind of video card I have, but since everything is going out through the PVR-350 tuner card, I assumed that the video card wouldn't even matter. I think I read somewhere that the PVR-350 only outputs MPEG-2 or something like that and I wonder if 1.7 GHz isn't enough to encode that on the fly. Though now that I think about it I thought that the PVR-350 also had encoder/decoder capabilities, so maybe that wouldn't matter. Hm. Thanks for the suggestions and informations. Joshua /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
