Multiple PCs

I have media I would like to stream and access remotely on more than one PC. Do I need to purchase a Pro License for each machine?

[will]

No, you only need to licence for the server, you can access your content removely from as many devices as you wish (assuming you aren't using it for comercial purposes)

[atc98092]

Be aware that your network traffic will double, as the file has to be sent from the remote PC to your Serviio box, then out to your media box. I wouldn't try this wireless, and a gigabit network would likely be necessary with more than one movie being streamed.

The other option is to install Serviio on every PC holding the media. If you don't need the media browser function, then you don't need the Pro version.

Of course, you could add hard drives to your Serviio box and move all your media there. That is the course I chose. Kept things simpler.

I wouldn't try this wireless, and a gigabit network would likely be necessary with more than one movie being streamed.

From my observations streaming a video file with 1080p (h264 - crf20 - 10Mbit) via DLNA over LAN takes about peak ~2.5MB/s (20Mb/s) but most of the time its at ~1.5MB/s (12Mb/s).



Therefore you can stream about 4 movies at the same time on 100Mbit and lets say 40 movies on 1Gigabit, so i call BS on atc98092's statement.

When using remote access make sure to adjust the output quality according to your WAN bandwidth.

[atc98092]

I wouldn't try this wireless, and a gigabit network would likely be necessary with more than one movie being streamed.

From my observations streaming a video file with 1080p (h264 - crf20 - 10Mbit) via DLNA over LAN takes about peak ~2.5MB/s (20Mb/s) but most of the time its at ~1.5MB/s (12Mb/s).



Therefore you can stream about 4 movies at the same time on 100Mbit and lets say 40 movies on 1Gigabit, so i call BS on atc98092's statement.

When using remote access make sure to adjust the output quality according to your WAN bandwidth.

Well, I certainly acknowledge that I've never run a network sniffer, so the only method I have of knowing the size of the stream is the monitor built into my Sony boxes. Maybe they are feeding me BS, but I have many HD movies that show a stream rate of anywhere from 35-60Mbps. If they are accurate, then a 100BaseT network would start having issues with only two movies.

The movies I am referring to are straight bit for bit Blu Ray rips, with no compression or transcoding. I think we are both accurate, based on the source file. Let's not be rude, ok?