Transcoding sort of works

I'm fairly new to this so don't exactly know what I am doing. My Samsung UA32C6900VF doesn't support DVR-MS but I read that Serviio does so I gave it a go.

When accessing the video on the samsung with the server running, It appears that the video has a picture on it indicating that it is recognised. Trying to run the video results in an unsupported file format and the video with a circled cross through it.

Then I exit the videos menu on the tv, select the folders menu for videos, select a video. it plays for half a minute then states "Unsupported video data". I then exit the video, restart it again and this time it works. Slowly and slightly blurry but works.

Could it be that my intel dual core 3.2 Ghz system is too slow to transcode to keep up and the 100 megabit router is too slow to deliver?

[Illico]

Your TV network is wired or Wifi ?
Could you give us some information about this video (see signature : ffmpeg -'i and MediaInfo)?
The problem in only for DVR-MS media or for all videos?

[zip]

Could it be that my intel dual core 3.2 Ghz system is too slow to transcode to keep up and the 100 megabit router is too slow to deliver?

Maybe. How many CPU cores do you have selected in the transcoding tab of the console?

iLLico, I will try to do that tomorrow after shopping..

Petr, I have selected 2 cores (Just in case). It is a wired network with a LinkSys WAG200G ADSL (10/100) modem/router running CAT5e cable.

Maybe I should buy a gigabit switch for inside-the-house traffic, it would bypass the slow router.

[Illico]

Maybe I should buy a gigabit switch for inside-the-house traffic, it would bypass the slow router.

My Home Network is in 10/100 wired, and its OK (Orange Router Box with simply D-Link Switchs).

iLLico, everything runs through this 5 year old ADSL modem/router.

The way a friend explained it to me, if I got an external gigabit switch, it would handle purely internal traffic through the switch and not through the router. That might solve a few issues.

Serviio is the first bit of software that I have seen that can play dvr-ms files over the network to my tv and be able to play them so I can' wait to solve this one.

Got all excited when the video started up!!!

[moltra]

The gigabit switch would only work if your computer and other device had gigabit connections.

[Illico]

The gigabit switch would only work if your computer and other device had gigabit connections.

And all TV now are 100Mbps.

[Cerberus]

The gigabit switch would only work if your computer and other device had gigabit connections.

And all TV now are 100Mbps.

yer but pc to router will still run at GB so will help performance adding a switch as well as router is pointless just buy a good GB router NETGEAR

[moltra]

yer but pc to router will still run at GB so will help performance adding a switch as well as router is pointless just buy a good GB router NETGEAR

I do not see how having a GB half way will help? Any videos played will still be bottlenecked between the router and the TV.

Like having a six lane road merging down to one lane.

[Illico]

I do not see how having a GB half way will help? Any videos played will still be bottlenecked between the router and the TV.

But if all your medias are in a remote DD, Serviio will first read and buffered the content from remote network DD, then will stream (transcoded, remuxed or send natively) to the TV.
So the first could read at 1G and the second at 100M, isn't it?