Serviio

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.

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.

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