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Hi <BR>
We have designed a IP steraming box using PowerPC processor of 350 MIPS speed along with 64 MB ram & 10 mbps ethernet.<BR>
I ported vlc 0.7.0 to that box and tried UDP/RTP streaming.<BR>
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I use vlc for windows as my streaming server in xeon processor.<BR>
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Observations<BR>
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1)when we transmitt with a MPEG2 stream in 512kbps bitrate from server and try to stream with IP box there is negligible packet loss<BR>
and no flickering in video.<BR>
2)when we try with 1 mbps & 1.5 mbps bitrate there is some packet less & very less flickering.<BR>
3)when i with more than 1.5 mbps there is heavy packet loss & more flickering in video.<BR>
4)when we try in Linux PC as streaming client in same network it works fine,but our box gives above problem.<BR>
5)Even we tried directly connecting the IPbox to the server using cross cable,the problem persists.<BR>
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My doubts<BR>
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1)Does vlc requires more memory & processing power for handling higher bitrate streams.<BR>
2)whether 10 mbps ethernet is not sufficient to stream more than 2 mbps bitrate stream.<BR>
3)buffering is not for vlc for reading the ethernet socket.(As i saw in vlc/modules/misc/network/ipv4.c that 0.5 mb buffer is needed to avoid packet loss but linux allocates less than that)<BR>
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Awaiting for your suggestions to resolve the problem.<BR>
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With Thanks & regards,<BR>
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Deepak<BR>
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