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HDTV Over WiFi: Any Hope?
I can watch ripped movies that reside on my Ultra-6 using an Android tablet over WiFi, no problem. But, of course, anything over 480 (720 or 1080....) does not play smoothly. I'm assuming it's a...
mdgm wrote: The advantage of newer faster client devices like newer tablets is that if they can play higher quality video not as much CPU power is needed to convert video to play on the device. Obviously you can only stream at a quality that your network connection can handle too.
I'm pretty sure it's the network because the tablet plays a test recording a-ok if the recording is first copied to the tablet's SD card - in fact, it's kind of astonishing how well it plays (Android, FX Player, Samsung 10.1" Note). I really couldn't ask for anything more in that respect.
Right now, I'm looking in to concocting sort of scheme where my 24-7 XP box sniffs out HD recordings and transcodes them to 480 (or whatever the largest rez that works over WiFi is...) in the wee hours of the night and ques them to a "Transcoded_HD_TV" share on the Ultra-6.
This is obviously not a religious issue.... and may be symptomatic of somebody who had too much time on their hands.... -)
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