Playback is Jerky

[LAF]

Hi,

I've recorded a program with Beyond TV (server), and now I'm trying to listen to it on my laptop with Beyond TV Link. For some reason it is very jerky...
The image and audio skips a lot to the point where it's annoying listening to it. I have tried playing it back on the SERVER (Beyond TV) and everything is fine.

Could someone help me fix this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Marc

[mercuri]

Are you using Vista? this may not really help but as an observation, I've been trying to build a link machine for the last month or so with a laptop loaded with Vista. Ug, what a nightmare.

i experienced the same issues you have. Its a fairly decent machine, Wireless N, gig of Ram, AMD 1.4 gig processor. But constant issues with Link freezing, stuttering etc.

the only thing on this machine were Beyond Media, and BTV link. I have other XP based link machines which had no issues. I tried everything, even downgrading to Vista Basic.

Finally, i got fed up and installed XP over this last weekend and of course everthing now works fine. even firefly remote (which sent Vista into fits)

So...does this help...probably not, but it may signal others who've had vista issues and overcome them to share some of thier experiences and possibly overcome your issue.

[LionRed]

I find BTV Link over my laptop gets jerky/skippy, whenever I have a connection less the 54MB.

[KeeterJ]

I can't solve your problem, but I sympathize with your problems with BTV Link and the frustration it causes. If you spend a few hours looking through older threads you will find many references to "stuttering" with Link. I think we would hear even more about it, but the majority of BTV users don't use BTV Link at all so it does not get as much attention as it should.

I am convinced there is a fundamental software problem that causes this, perhaps not in SnapStream's software -- maybe in .NET. I have two BTV servers and three Link clients and I have this problem frequently. I have done a lot of testing and still can't say for sure what causes it. In my case, it's not for lack of hardware resources -- I'm using pretty high-end stuff that's dedicated to BTV and BTV Link. I have this problem with both XP and Vista.

In my case, I discovered some other problems with several on-board Ethernet controllers (both nVidia embedded Ethernet and 3rd party stuff like Marvell) that was preventing them from streaming multi-gigabyte files without choking. This might be worthy of another forum thread, but in the end I bought several Intel PCI and PCI Express Ethernet cards and cured that network problem on 4 different PC's. Since then, I have had a significant reduction in the BTV Link stuttering, although it still happens in about 1 out of 20 programs I watch. I'm not trying to convince people to change Ethernet chips/drivers -- I'm just trying to illustrate that there is more going on than you might think. Most people immediately assume the stuttering problem is due to poor CPU or video hardware, but in my case that had nothing to do with it.

In the mean time I either watch the program on the BTV server -or- I record the same programs on two servers and when one client starts stuttering I switch to the other server. Pretty lame, but it works.

I hope this gets cured in a future release of BTV or something from MS.