[streaming] Re: Still having VLM issues

[Viktor Kompaneyets]

Matthew Geier wrote:

> Viktor Kompaneyets wrote:
[]
>> Do you use linux? Kernel wersion? (BrookTree chips is not wery well
>> supported in earlier version of 2.6 kernel-tree)
> 
>   2.6.15

Should work

> 
>>>  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.
>> 
>> 
>> --dvb-budget-mode is set?
> 
>   In the VLM file yet - but it might be an option that only works on the
> command line :-)

Try setting all DVB-transponder stuss on the commandline

[...]
>   Got a Gigabit PCI-X NIC - although there is a 32bit/33Mhz DVB card on
> the same PCI bus - I don't know enough about PCI-X to know how it
> negotiates speeds, I could be pulling down the effciency of the network
> card...

PCI-X GigE should help, but need to be tested. But mixing PCI-X and PCI
cards on the same bus is not good solution :(

> 
>   The machine has 2 x PIII 1.3 Ghz processors (It's a 'recycled' server).

I've encountered, that systems with SMP works worse for DVB reciever side. 

> 
>   I've just dropped back to 3 cards (and two 'relays') removing the
> DVB-S card from the mix. My CPU load dropped a lot.

Of course!

>   Either I hit some sort of 'soft' limit in vlc where it can't get
> enough CPU time to work properly or the BT878 driver eats resources.
>   Later I might try dropping one of the DVB-T sources and readding the
> DVB-S one and see what the effect is.

Short time ago I'd set up the system with 3 DVB-S (Skystar2) cards in 1.5GHz
Duron system. It works with 80% CPU load, but stable.

> 
>   Guess I should post my entire vlm config file some time, so a working
> example ends up in the mailing list archives.


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Viktor Kompaneyets
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