have you tried streaming the same movie from the ultra?
most single hd streams generally can be streamed on fast ethernet (ie appletv), unless you are doing some other heavy io while streaming, even the old sparc devices can stream hd.
Is it silver, or charcoal? Silver color would be the NV+ v1 (25MB/s), charcoal would be NV+ v2 (~50MB/s). Whereas the Ultra can do around 80MB/s....
Just wanted to add the full BluRay streaming requires about 7 MB/s, A 12 GB 90 minute movie requires about 2 MB/s. So all of these products are > 10x faster than what is needed.
anarchoi wrote:
However, i have noticed a small lag when things are moving fast
Are you seeing the video stall and rebuffer? Or a audio/video lip sync problem? Or the frame rate appearing to slow down? I am not sure what you mean by "lag" exactly.
BTW, the original BluRay are compressed, your files are just compressed again to a still smaller size.
Ok i guess it answer my question then. I thought maybe ReadyNAS didn't have enough bandwidth for full HD streaming.
What i mean by lag is that the frame rate appears to slow down during big action scenes. Sometimes it freezes for a fraction of second then start again
have you tried using another video player to see if it is a decoding issue. sounds like a decoder issue to me, e.g not enough cpu/gpu power. check drivers. it might be trying to play using CPU not gpu.
Ok i guess it answer my question then. I thought maybe ReadyNAS didn't have enough bandwidth for full HD streaming.
What i mean by lag is that the frame rate appears to slow down during big action scenes. Sometimes it freezes for a fraction of second then start again
Ok.
Causes for this kind of thing can be (1) the media file itself has a problem, (2) the playback capacity of the player (GPU performance or insufficient buffering), (3) a network issue of some kind, (4) the server.
You can try copying the file over to the ultra and also the HTPC local disk, and see if the problem changes.
