[streaming] Re: Still having VLM issues

[Benjamin Pracht]

Le jeudi 12 janvier 2006 à 09:55 +1100, Matthew Geier a écrit :

> > Try to fetch the whole transponder and filer them with other
> > program (replex?).
> 
>   I hoped to try that by leaving the 'programs=' line off in the hope 
> that it would feed the entire TS stream into VLC - but that didn't work 
> either - got nothing.
>   Will experiment further - as when I first started doing this I managed 
> to stream the entire DVB-T multiplex out on one multicast group - the 
> vlc clients would open up ALL streams and then promptly overload the 
> client machine - if I was lucky I could get in and turn off the other 
> video streams before vlc crashed.
> 

Have you tried the --dvb-budget-mode option (if you card supports it) ?

>   My signals are not perfect however - and when a burst of errors 
> occurs, the CPUs on the machine max out making the errors worse... 
> Streaming 16 streams from 4 cards from the one box is probably over 
> doing it :-)

Well, we've streamed about 100 Mbit/s of data from an athlon XP 2400+
(with VLS, though). What is your CPU usage ?

> 
>   Dumping X and running on the console might give me a little more 
> processor time for signal processing :-)
> 
> 

-- 
BigBen

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