[streaming] VLC Streaming bandwidth problem on Windows XP

[Steve Bennett]

On Windows XP VLC streaming with both http and mms,  bandwidth maxes out at about 400kbs over a network connection (even local LAN) . The data rate starts shooting up as you start streaming but flattens out to a constant rate of around 400kbit/s. 

If you stream between a VLC server and client on the same machine there is no problem. You can read and play video files from the XP machine over the lan connection without hitting a limit. So it looks like a bug with the VLC tcp output for mms or http.

There are several posts on the forums about this problem and many thousands of folks have viewed the posts but there is no solution.
e.g http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=40244#40244
and http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=8374

Environment
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Windows XP Service Pack 2
Problem seen with both VLC 0.8.2 and 0.8.4-test1 beta
VLC command:-
dshow:// :dshow-vdev="Hauppauge WinTV 88x Video Capture" :dshow-adev="SoundMAX Digital Audio" :dshow-size="640x480" :no-dshow-config :no-dshow-tuner :dshow-caching=200 :dshow-chroma="" :dshow-fps=0.000000 :dshow-tuner-channel=0 :dshow-tuner-country=0 :dshow-tuner-input=0

:sout=#transcode{vcodec=DIV3,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=64,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,url=192.168.1.14:4321}}

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