Streaming tp slow PC

[Mike78]

Hi,

I have a Problem and no experience with streaming. So maybe this will be a stupid question.

I have got 2 PC's. A slow one (which is quiet) in the living room and a fast one (loud) in my working room. The Problem is: the slow PC is not fast enough to play a high-resolution Video by itself. So what I want to do is: Streaming the Video from the fast one to slow PC.

But it doesn’t work or I was not able to make it work. I have tried streaming with VLC. But during streaming, the slow PC (Client) is always on 100% CPU Power and the Server 2% CPU Power.

I have read a lot of technical details on this Site, but no answer to this question ;(

Is there a simple solution?

Mike

[MikeQBF]

It sounds to me like you're trying to play a complex encoding format (like H.264) that consumes a lot of horsepower just to decode. The "server" isn't doing anything but passing it through, and the player is still left sweating the decode.

You will need to transcode in the server to something easier for the player to digest. For starters, try MPEG-2 - it's supposed to be capable of 720i but I haven't tried it myself for HD.

[cunyalen]

I'm streaming screen using VH Screen Capture with audio to my TV through TVersity. H.264 makes the best image quality. But the streaming is too slow. I'm wondering what parameters I should use to get decent quality and speed.
Right now, I'm using H.264,1024kbps,12fps,AAC,64kbps,44100,2 ch. But it's still slow. It's slow even for 256kbps.

For other codecs, 256kbps makes very bad image quality. I tried MPEG-2,4096kbps,25fps, MPEG Audio,128kbps,44100,2 ch. The image quality is still not as clear, sometimes even unbearable. By the way, to use this codec I have to use UScreenCapture, I can't get VH with audio.

DIVX 3, 4096kbps,25fps, MP3,128kbps,44100,2 ch: totally unbearable. MPEG4 + MP3 is about the same.

We can stream HD videos from internet without problem. I wonder why local streaming is so hard. I thought local streaming should be much faster. What codecs would you recommend?