Mac (MacBook Pro) BTV Link

[nparker13]

Hey everyone, havent posted in a while, but i thought i might share some coolness a la my new macbook pro with ya'll in a screenshot of btv link running in an xp parallels partition on my 17" macbook pro, while doing work in osx. Enjoy!

Nate

Video doesnt seem to be working, but worth watching once it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPydgtdGYGk

NOTE: ALL VIDEOS DEPICTED ARE PROPERTY OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL STUDIO. THIS IS MERELY A DEMONSTRATION TO SHOW THE CAPABILITY OF THE HARDWARE, NOT INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION NOR PROFIT. IT IS MERELY FOR PERSONAL USE.

[soham]

Ooo, nice!

[skylar]

How did you get the video to play back? I have a 17" MacBook Pro running Parallels I get a DirectX SDK error and it plays in "software mode" the video is VERY choppy. Can you post any tips?

[nparker13]

Originally Posted by skylar

How did you get the video to play back? I have a 17" MacBook Pro running Parallels I get a DirectX SDK error and it plays in "software mode" the video is VERY choppy. Can you post any tips?

Here are my settings:

XP, Normal Acceleration, 512 MB Ram, 7500 MB HDD. Im running wired ethernet, but i think wireless is just as good. Also, upgrade parallels to the latest version. I have build 1898.

Attached are the error messages i get. at first it runs slow but after entering a password and entering the menu, its faster than my btv server!

Nate

[rugby]

How did you even get BTV link to work? I tried this and it keeps telling me there's no BTV servers present.

[nparker13]

Make sure:

#1 Your Network Settings are correct

#2 You are on the same network (mine is on the same wired lan. If i go on wireless to my AP, i can see it, but on another ap i cant.)

See my pics, hope it helps. if not, post some more info.

nate

[rugby]

I fixed the problem, my btv server is hooked to a wrt54g used as a wds repeater. If I hard-wire my macbook pro to the same wrt54g it works, if I do wireless it doesn't work.

[nparker13]

interesting. May be a problem with parallels using your wireless connection?

[rugby]

Nah, parallels works fine with my wireless setup. I use it for a few hours a day for both Outlook/Exchange communication and Quickbooks. I think BTV just has a linking problem over wireless. Maybe a latency issue?