Slow Picture and Video serving... Twonky or Connection?
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:44 pm
Hi all,
This is my first time posting and I'm kind of new on the media server front.
I currently have a DNS-323 firmware 1.08 with Twonky v5.1.3, a Netgear WNR3500 Gigabit Wireless-N router, and a PS3 Slim firmware 3.5. I have successfully streamed music from NAS to the PS3 and it's pretty cool. However, I have an issue with photos and video and I'm trying to pinpoint where the problem is.
Photo thumbnails load up very slowly and I can't view them until they're all loaded up. Most photos are JPG at 8 or 10 MP. I also have some scanned high resolution PNGs, so obviously bigger sizes.
I have AVI videos, which seem to stream, but not without audio loss and stuttering. I did a quick test--One of the AVI files is ~140MB. When I stream it to the PS3, it stutters. When I copy it to the PS3 and play it it plays perfectly fine, which leads me to believe that it's not a video format issue, but a transfer rate. The copying of this 140MB file took about 80 seconds, so that's about 1.75 Mbytes/s (or 14 MBps). My NAS is normally capable of transfer rates of up to 17-18 MBytes/sec.
I tried converting the AVI to MP4 and the size was reduced to 8835KB. I thought it would be able to stream this new video without a problem, but I was WRONG--The video still stuttered when it was streamed from the NAS. However, it played fine when it was copied to the PS3. The copying took about 10 seconds, so that's about 0.86 MBytes/s (or ~7 Mbps).
What is going on here? At first, I thought it was the connection and was contemplating getting an Ethernet bridge for the PS3 to up the bandwidth, but now I think it's Twonky. What do you guys think?
This is my first time posting and I'm kind of new on the media server front.
I currently have a DNS-323 firmware 1.08 with Twonky v5.1.3, a Netgear WNR3500 Gigabit Wireless-N router, and a PS3 Slim firmware 3.5. I have successfully streamed music from NAS to the PS3 and it's pretty cool. However, I have an issue with photos and video and I'm trying to pinpoint where the problem is.
Photo thumbnails load up very slowly and I can't view them until they're all loaded up. Most photos are JPG at 8 or 10 MP. I also have some scanned high resolution PNGs, so obviously bigger sizes.
I have AVI videos, which seem to stream, but not without audio loss and stuttering. I did a quick test--One of the AVI files is ~140MB. When I stream it to the PS3, it stutters. When I copy it to the PS3 and play it it plays perfectly fine, which leads me to believe that it's not a video format issue, but a transfer rate. The copying of this 140MB file took about 80 seconds, so that's about 1.75 Mbytes/s (or 14 MBps). My NAS is normally capable of transfer rates of up to 17-18 MBytes/sec.
I tried converting the AVI to MP4 and the size was reduced to 8835KB. I thought it would be able to stream this new video without a problem, but I was WRONG--The video still stuttered when it was streamed from the NAS. However, it played fine when it was copied to the PS3. The copying took about 10 seconds, so that's about 0.86 MBytes/s (or ~7 Mbps).
What is going on here? At first, I thought it was the connection and was contemplating getting an Ethernet bridge for the PS3 to up the bandwidth, but now I think it's Twonky. What do you guys think?