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Hi everyone,

I have been trying to stream over the Internet from my home server Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid). I use http streaming through port 8080 and I have tried a few codec combinations with no luck. When I use H.264 + AAC (TS), I have great picture quality but it freezes every 10 seconds. If I use something else, like MPEG-2 + MPGA (TS) or WMV + WMA (ASF), it is watchable, but the video is severely pixelated. Yesterday, I was able to stream "H.264 + AAC (TS)" with a little bit of freezing at first but after that it was just fine. I did a speed test of both internet connections, on the server-side it is 1.46 Mb/s for upload and on the client side it is 16.04 Mb/s for download.

Does anyone know anything that I can change so I can get the videos to stream a least decent quality without lots of freezing?

Also, I did try to change the buffer for the http in preferences on the server to 0 and 10000 at different times, but no luck.

Thanks

Try the following. This will give you acceptable quality with a bitrate of around 500-700Kbps. Also try to playback on your local system as to make sure that your system is performing proper transcoding.