Good remote viewing but very poor local viewing

[mikebell]

Still using firmware 222.215-USB on my Hava Titanium since I had trouble with the latest firmware. 1.7.2.256 player on my laptop works just fine using a wireless connection but using my N800 (OS2008 - latest BEFORE Diablo) with the latest client locally starts to stutter after about 10 seconds then pretty much dies. But, remotely it works great. Went back to the first and second beta but still the same.

Any thoughts or additional information I can provide? Why would it only be a local problem for the tablet when it's fine on the laptop and fine on the tablet when viewing remotely?

Thanks,

Mike

[Gary-MM]

Hi Mike,

On the Mobile clients, all viewing is "remote viewing" mode.

So what you're apparently saying is that when you're using the N810 in your home, you get crummy bitrate. What is the reported bitrate inside your house vs. elsewhere?

I've been using the N810 at home for awhile and usually get 400-500 kbps which is fine. So the only other thing that (I can think of which) might affect it would be the wireless signal strength to the tablet in that particular environment. How's the wifi signal strength look there?

[mikebell]

I was thinking that it might all be remote. I'm assuming there's a technical reason for that(?).

The signal is good and I get good bitrates from the wireless connection on my laptop. I currently have the Titanium setup wirelessly but will change that to a hardwired connection to see if that makes a difference.

I'll post back after I've made the change or might even swap out my crappy Trendnet router to see if it's the problem.

Thanks,

Mike

[Gary-MM]

Hi Mike,

The developers might have their own perspectives, but regarding technical rationale for all viewing on a mobile device being in the "remote" mode, the primary ones I can think of are:

Expectation of lower bitrates on average.
Lower power CPU probably not able to handle full screen MPEG-2 decoding at 6 Mbps. Even some low end PCs struggle to keep up with this.

Plus, of course, just supporting one of the viewing modes does simplify things somewhat.

Look forward to your further analysis.

[schoppy]

You're not alone...I have exactly the same problem. Everything plays great on my N810 when I'm not logged onto my home wireless...shoot, I can even tether to my cell phone and it works great pulling in ~150 Kbps...however when logged into my home wireless, the same network that the Hava is on...if it even ever starts playing it's choppy and locks up my device after a few seconds.

I thought maybe it's my internet connection, so I upgraded to Roadrunner turbo (10 Mbps), but nothing changed....it'd be nice to have it working on my home network, but I'm happy enough that it works great outside of my home.

[pceee]

hmmm if the problem is because the device cannot handle the bitrate, then a simple solution would be to allow local viewing at the same bitrate as remote.

right now we cannot set local below 2000 kbps. If mp4 dopesn't work well under 2000 kbps, then allowing mp2 locally should solve the problem.