Serviio

God evening ladies and gentlemen,

at present I am having a little trouble with my WLAN and Serviio. Hope you can help me out a bit.

What I want to do:
Stream HD-videos via DLNA from my PC to my TV. While DLNA runs via WLAN.

What do I use:

TV: Panasonic Viera TX-P42GT30E

WLAN-Module (TV): Netgear WNDA3100

Router: Linksys WRT54GL

PC:
Motherboard : Gigabyte P55A-UD3
CPU : Intel Core i5 750 @ 2666 MHz
RAM : 4096 MB (2 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM )
Graphics : ATI Radeon HD 5600 Series
HDD : WDC (1000 GB)
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Home Edition 6.01.7601 Service Pack 1 (x64)

Media Server:Serviio 0.6.1

> Drivers (TV and PC) are up-to-date
> Connection between PC and Router: LAN
> Distance between Router and TV: approx. 7 metre (3 walls); Connection quality: approx. 50 % (measured via Laptop)


What is my Problem:

As the Panasonic isn’t playing every video format, I try to stream my HD-Videos – mainly mkv-container - via Serviio. Unfortunately that works hardly anytime. I mean it works fine for the first 3-5 minutes but then it starts to be jerky and watching becomes impossible. (If it does though, pausing and playing again always causes an annoying waiting time :frown: )

As I see it, the performance of the PC is not the source of error. Neither is the TV, as it plays Full HD videos from an USB-Stick brilliantly. So it has to be the WLAN connection or Serviio, or both^^
As Serviio comes with a transcoding function mkv-videos should work, so I guess it’s the WLAN connection. Probably the amount of data just can’t be handled via WLAN. So that’s my question: Is the problem caused by the connection or by Serviio? (Unfortunately I don’t have a LAN-cable long enough to test the connection, but I will bring one tomorrow)

Furthermore I would like to know if any of you are using converting software do keep all the HD-videos in the same format? If so, which one?

Tips, tricks, ideas and suggestions of all kind are very welcome. Many thanks in advance!

Patrick

Hi Patrick,
From my experience the problem is with the USB adaptor Netgear WNDA3100 which is 802-11n and the router which is only 802-11g and so the transfer over WIFI that you are getting is restricted to 802-11g speeds. For HD I would recommend using powerplugs, the 200 mbps versions should be fine, and that will give you the necessary transfer speed.

Homeplugs, or wired would be your best bet, but you might be able to get by with a good "N" router.

I would recommend the following tool to be used to ensure that your router is not having to share time slices with another router close by on the same channel.

http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2439

I am using a Netgear N300 with zero connection issues using wireless and a Sony N200 media player...netflix is fine etc, and there are 3 other computers on the network