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Originally Posted by cyrnel
You're basically streaming content that may not be "streaming friendly". The only way an app knows how far to look ahead (and which files might be needed) in every case is to preflight the media. Plenty of room for error there given all the authoring options. Hopefully someone will mention players that handle it better, but you might do best to write a simple media browser that copies locally before handing off to your players.
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I wish I could just copy it locally, but the files are about 1.5 to 4.5 gigs, and its a 10/100 network, 10+ minutes to copy the file first, I’d like to find a way that it would start playing and copy the file at the same time. so 10 minutes into the movie it would be fully cached.
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Originally Posted by cyrnel
Should mention I got sick of random things happening on the net or on my server causing video stutters. Most of the annoyances were my own fault and not something predictable, even with preflighting. Without a full copy at the player there's not much to be done if a big task fires up, and two hours of video provides lots of opportunity for murphy to send me running and cursing.
Perhaps if the boxes were static - if I didn't change things all the time - then maybe a point of comfort could be reached. They aren't. If I ever stop screwing around with them it means I'm dead. (No more movie problem.)
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This is my problem, I’m always doing something on the server, mainly BT, if I’m accessing a file on a HD that is being used for BT, every so often the cache BT has fills up and it has to dump to the hard drive, I’ve increased the cache to 64 MB, but the pauses still happen. I do have a complete front end, all the media is indexed in a SQL database, which my IIS server serves through a few ASP pages.