[streaming] Re: Streaming performance

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Anders Bøje Larsen wrote:

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>Hi
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>But why is it nessesery to transfer data via the disk? could'nt it be done
>in memory.
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Do you stream a file from disk??? Or are you streaming a DVB card?

>More than one person has said that it should'nt use the disk at all, so
>maybe there is an "issue" on my setup.
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Sorry I am not sure what kind of setup you have?

>>OK, but my system has 512 Megs of RAM, and there is only allocated 240
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>megs
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>>while streaming.
>>The sund from the HD indicates that a LOT of small data chunks is
>>written/read while streaming.
>>Any ideas?
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>Yeah defragment the drive! It really helps when your video stream is
>contiguous on the disk.
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>For a small number of streams however it does not matter much, but for a
>larger number of streams (>5) it certainly will make a difference.
>
>I must warn you there are more knobs to tweak on your system for getting
>the best streaming performance, but this is outside the VLS/VLC scope.
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>

Grtz,

Jean-Paul Saman.



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