RE: Streaming Video Over A LAN

["Keith Doxey" <lists.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

When I did my jukebox demo at the London meet, I finished with a demo of
its
DiVx Video serving capabilities.

I was watching "Me Myself and Irene" on the laptop being used as
the server.

A couple of minutes later Ian Lowe started the same movie showing on
his
laptop (obviously a couple of minutes behind my showing).

Then Dr. John started to watch "Dinosaurs" on his laptop. My P3
900 laptop
was happily serving all three movies until I pulled the network cable
out
just to prove thet they were coming from my machine.

My laptop was connected to the 100MB switch that was set up for the
meet,
but Ian and John were using WIRELESS connections to the WAP connected to
the
LAN.

I doubt we could have gone beyond 2 wireless clients but it was
certainly
working fine for the 2 in use. I dont know how well it would cope with
true
DVD but DiVx worked fine :-)

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andy@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 July 2002 09:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Streaming Video Over A LAN


> What would you use to stream a video over a LAN, specifically over
WLAN
> at 6-10Mbs?

Have you checked how much bandwidth you're actually getting?  ITYF
you
don't get 6Mbps.  802.11b is rated at 11Mbps, but you'll generally
only
see half of that, ie. 5.5Mbps.

> I'm trying to stream a DVD from one machine to another on the WLAN
and
> get a pretty poor result with it using Power DVD.

I thought a DVD was about 2Mbps?  I expect I'm very wrong though!

Andy
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