Can Showsqueezed videos be accessed via 802.11b wireless network?

[jip]

I am planning to recompress the PVR250 MPEG-2 videos into DivX High Def using the new showsqueeze feature.

I know previously, the MPEG2 videos would require bandwidth that my wireless network cannot handle. I was wondering if the showsqueezed Divx videos can run over a filemount over an 802.11b wireless network, which traditionally can only support transfer rates of about 4mbps when WEP is enabled.

Has anyone done this? Would be nice to access the content without plugging into the 100mbps switch LAN network.

- J

[ctebo]

If you don't have much other wireless traffic, and you're squeezing down to something below 3 or 4 Mbs you should be able to get decent results.

The problem at that point will be with video quality. I gave up on 802.11b and moved to 802.11g and have no problem playing back recordings at 9 Mbs over my wireless-g network...

[marc.aronson]

I showsqueeze to WMV format and watch across my 802.11b network. Works fine if I simply browse to the directory that contains the WMV file, double-click and play in WMV. If I attempt to watch it through the snapstream web interface, I have problems with video freezing. So my feedback is it works if you don't try to watch through the snapstream web interface.

I've had 2 laptops playing two different shows across my 802.11b network simultaneously -- no problems.

My WMV's are encoded to 1,300,000 bits/sec, 720x480, 2-pass, quality=50, Video compression format=windows media video V7, FPS=30, Deinterlace option turned on in advanced settings.

Time to encode from mpeg2->WMV is ~2:1 on a 2.4GHZ P4. ie: 1 hour to encode a 30 minute show. I've tried 1-pass, and it's faster, but the quality difference is very visible.

Video quality is very good.

Marc