NitoTV streaming speed

First post… be gentle with me!

I have a synology NAS drive with an SMB share which is mounted fine in ATV. When I try to play a DVD that I shrunk down using DVDShrink, the frames stutter and the audio is on and off… basically unwatchable…

Now I thought this was due to using 85Mbs homeplugs as when I made a hard connection with the router I saw that it was OK. I read today a review of the 200Mbs homeplugs that said that the real world speed was around 17Mbs, so I would hate to think what the 85MBs run at… :?

Anyway, as a test I installed XBMC, set up the SMB share, and bam, streamed OK, no stutters… perfect…

So why is there an issue with NitoTV?

Also I could fry an egg on the top of the ATV… even when it is on standby…

I could have sworn that I read a wiki or howto this morning saying that you had to ensure NitoTV was playing back using quicktime… but for the life of me cannot find it!

Any help much appreciated…

Cheers,

Mark

When I try to play a DVD that I shrunk down using DVDShrink, the frames stutter and the audio is on and off… basically unwatchable…

Mark, I have this same problem with full DVD rips being referenced via my Time Capsule using the fastest connection speed and (N) and the strongest signal strength. I was up all night trying to make this work but no dice. I have called and emailed ATV Flash but have not heard anything just yet. I noticed that I was able to play some video via XBMC but that was limited to a short clip…

Do you have a solution? This is an important feature for me.

Thanks,

Robert

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R

Hi Robert,

Thanks for replying to me! It’s real frustrating right?!

A little history… I just want my DVD collection backed up, and after trying handbrake and a few others got nowhere. Actually I did use MPEG Streamclip with good results but it took about 8 hours per DVD and now I forget how to use it :roll:

Anyway, DVD shrink will strip to 50%, so that is good enough for me, plus it only takes ten minutes or so per disk… perfect!

Yesterday I got the 200mbs homeplugs… plugged in, no difference :oops:

Now the DVD playback is better, but still unwatchable. The H264 files I ripped using MPEG Streamclip now play OK too…

Ultimately though we have proven that playback is fine in XBMC… so what is going on in NitoTV…

Did you find the installation comment about playing it through quicktime… I cannot find this… maybe I made it up… :mrgreen:

Hi Robert,

I forgot to say that I also tried to play the DVD off a USB stick plugged in the back… almost watchable, but dropped a few frames. Definitely a NitoTV thing going on here, but cannot put my finger on it…

Cheers,

Mark

http://forum.awkwardtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2788

Started a new thread…

OK I played around today again… tried it as mixed… tried it as mplayer…tried it as quicktime… all the same… changed the cache setting… 1 min, 2 min… 15 minutes… no good, still jumping…

Now, as a test I installed Boxee on my laptop which is wireless and I could stream the DVD fine from the NAS box… now the homeplugs are around 4 times faster than wireless, and I can stream no problem to XBMC… so why is there such an issue with NitoTV?

I just plugged in a hard connection again, and all is good, so it is certainly a speed issue, but if I have no issue with XBMC on the ATV then why is there an issue with NitoTV… :frowning:

Had another play today… installed vlc player on the laptop and streamed DVD from the NAS drive fine using both wireless and the Homeplug AV 200… so I am at a loss now… thinking of binning the ATV and looking for something else to stream my DVDs… :cry: :cry:

OK, it seems that I was not aware the ATV had wireless built in… :roll: :lol:

Once I enabled this (didnt like wep with my Linksys router, so tried wpa2 instead) DVD streamed fine, but H264 was jumpy… :frowning: previously this was the other way around… not sure how a wireless connection can trump a 100Mbs connection, unless there are errors using the homeplugs etc…

Anyway, this seems to work for me, but it is not ideal…

Mark

I have the same problem while streaming… it is a little bit jumpy, not enough not to watch the movie butI don’t understand why is there a problem with Nito TV ???

Hi,

I am using NitoTV on WLAN network with an Aiport Extreme and my DVD rips stored on an iMACs hard disk. I get very sluggish behaviour when trying to stream through a SMB share to my ATV! Streamimg normal ATV content (i.e. ATV formatted media files) using the stanrard ATV stuff works OK (no problems at all)!

I this something to expect? Is transferring of ripped DVD content more bandwidth consuming than standard ATV content or maybe something is wrong? Settings? Problems in the NitoTV release? Ohers?

Any comments or suggestions for me! I would really like to stream DVDs over WLAN to my ATV!

Mats

Streaming DVD (VIDEO_TS) files is best done through a wired connection. It is possible to do via a wifi connection, however depending on the distance between the router and AppleTV the performance may not be ideal.

Just a little update that I am still using wireless, but dropping frames. As I highlighted earlier, there are no problems streaming this content with Boxee or XBMC, only Nito TV … bearing this in mind I do not think it is a wired/wireless issue, but accept the fact if I had a hard connection direct to the router it would solve the problem…

[size=150]What is the deal here!!! we need a solution ATV Flash[/size].

I have the exactly the same issue. Boxee on ATV streams perfectly but not NitoTV it basically hangs after 3 seconds of audio and video, after that i only get a frame every 5-10 seconds and no audio.

Yet in Boxee it plays without a glitch.

Hi there, glad you posted… we need to bring more attention to this as currently it is ignored… :evil:

I think people are overlooking the obvious… if it can stream OK with Boxee or XBMC IT IS NOT a wireless problem…

The only thing I can think of is maybe its an SMB mount problem? Unless I am mistaken XMBC creates its own mounts? Not sure about Boxee. If I get time I might try an NFS mount instead, but tbh as XBMC streamer my music and photos, I am running out of reasons to try and get this working on Nito TV…

Just a little update here… I have spent quite some £££££ flood wiring my house with CAT5e in an attempt to futureproof. I assumed this would fix the problem, it’s a gigabit network anyway (yes, I know the ATV is 100 base T), but alas no… it is still juddery…

Does the cache function work at all???

I notice too that the file access to the samba share is pretty sluggish… I have to wait for the images to load up and to navigate down my mounted folder. All of this is flawless in XBMC. I am wondering if there is a way to force the ATV to load straight up into XBMC. If they update the theme to be the same as the Windoze version there would be no reason to bail out to the Apple UI…

Seriously considering ditching the ATV on ebay and replacing it with an xtreamer which I’ve been testing the last few months… :evil:

Which version of aTV Flash are you running? Was it recently updated? The current 4.1.2 version includes a number of SMB streaming improvements.

  1. Ensure all items are up-to-date through the Maintenance → Manage Plugins menu.
  2. Re-run the Smart Installer to take advantage of the SMB streaming improvements (http://wiki.atvflash.com/index.php?title=Smart_Installer)

Well, there are several ways actually:

AppleTV/Linux bootmenu: http://wiki.github.com/Evinyatar/atvclient/appletvlinux-bootmenu

HOW-TO install a Miminal Ubuntu and XBMC with sound over HDMI on the AppleTV: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_install_a_Miminal_Ubuntu_and_XBMC_with_sound_over_HDMI_on_the_AppleTV

XBMC CrystalHD branch on a USB stick: Kodi Community Forum

Which version of aTV Flash are you running? Was it recently updated? The current 4.1.2 version includes a number of SMB streaming improvements.

  1. Ensure all items are up-to-date through the Maintenance → Manage Plugins menu.
  2. Re-run the Smart Installer to take advantage of the SMB streaming improvements (http://wiki.atvflash.com/index.php?title=Smart_Installer)[/quote]

Yep, I’m on the latest version… was quite optimistic about the SMB updates… but doesnt seem to have done anything for me… :frowning:

Well, there are several ways actually:

AppleTV/Linux bootmenu: http://wiki.github.com/Evinyatar/atvclient/appletvlinux-bootmenu

HOW-TO install a Miminal Ubuntu and XBMC with sound over HDMI on the AppleTV: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_install_a_Miminal_Ubuntu_and_XBMC_with_sound_over_HDMI_on_the_AppleTV

XBMC CrystalHD branch on a USB stick: Kodi Community Forum

Thanks for that… but I was more thinking along the lines of a straight redirect rather than booting into linux…