Samsung 46C8000

Hi,
Found this tool over the weekend and works very nicely on my sammy. I had used TVersity and my old xbox360 for streaming before and had endless issues with containers such as mkv.

However I did find if you leave auto fresh on it was taking 18% cpu time on one core (I have a quadcore i7 860, 4Gig RAM) do I have disabled that and only refresh when needed.

Question (I have searched) is it possible to test Serviio on a PC?

Thanks.

I restarted Serviio last night at 21:49, it is still initalizing its Media Library ...

I tested a 1080p movie last night, I experienced buffering every 3 mins or so. I am wired via homeplugs (these are plugged directly into the wall). I am running a QuadCore i7 820 4GIG Windows 7UE PC, with the content sitting on a 1TB 7200RPM 32MB SATA-300 HDD. Do I need to move to solid state or add another drive and raid1 them?

Many thanks in advance for any advice.

[zip]

Might be the plugs don't cope with he HD bitrate. Any chance trying it out with a direct LAN connection?

Thank you for your reply. The homeplugs can go upto 84Mpbs and I am only doing around 16Mbps. I shall run some more tests tonight, isolating each component.

[Illico]

The homeplugs can go upto 84Mpbs and I am only doing around 16Mbps.

Be careful, on the paper a 85Mbps homeplugs is not a full 85Mbps. 85Mbps is the physical bitrate, but with protocol like UDP, the maximum bitrate is less.
I know that a 200Mbps LEA homeplug is limited to 90Mbps for UDP and 80Mbps for TCP protocol.
For a 85+ LEA homeplug, 25Mbps on UDP and 20Mbps for TCP.
And LEA have good result, but some other could be less 15Mbps, or 10Mbps not enough for HD movies (20Mbps/30Mbps).

Wow thanks for the info, I shall see if I can run some bandwidth tests. I can't remember who makes mine.

I have used devolo Informer and see it drop down to 20Mbps . I guess I'll be getting usb HDD tomorrow, thus no need for serviio for 1080p and 3D movies, going to try 720p now. I hope I can continue to use this as its a great product.

update: 720p plays just fine, with the homeplugs still dropping down to 20Mbps, I may try different wall sockets or make a HTPC