Choppy vid - which end is slow!

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Hi,

I'm streaming a HD WMV file at 720p on XP out to a G5 iMac. I'm transcoding the WMV to mp4v TS at 4096 kbs. The video is *almost* smooth but not smooth enough!

The CPU on the XP streamer (3200 Athlon) is at 100%, so I suspect the transcoding is very intensive.

Anyone done something similar? Can anyone tell me what spec server I need to do this, or is it the G5 that is struggling to decode the stream fast enough?

Thanks in advance for any help.