{"id":384,"date":"2010-02-13T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpsharp.com\/blog\/?p=384"},"modified":"2010-02-13T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T22:17:02","slug":"more-7mc-and-video-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"More 7MC and Video Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally carved some time out after the 11PM feeding to do some more Media Center upgrades.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Following a tip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revohtpc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this 7MC  config page<\/a>, I installed the Adobe  Flash 10.1 Beta to address a flash performance problem I was noticing.\u00a0  This, plus the ATI Catalyst 10.1 drivers did the trick.\u00a0 I now suspect it was  a driver problem all along, since the release notes call out a problem dropping  frames in Flash. Now Hulu playback is pretty much flawless.<\/p>\n<p>I also took the opportunity to upgrade to DVRMS Toolbox 1.2.2.0, along with the latest DTBAdd-in  for Windows 7 and ShowAnalyzer. The latest DBTAdd-in has a fix for the null MediaExperience bug which I was forcing me to restart Media Center in order to get commercial skip working.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping the upgrade to ShowAnalyzer will improve the over-aggressive commercial removal when watching Fringe.\u00a0\u00a0 But it&#8217;s been almost perfect on all the other shows.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also recently begun to play with Handbrake for converting videos for streaming from Amazon S3.\u00a0And when I want to stream my favorite shows I&#8217;ve been using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steadyiptv.com\/best-iptv-provider-hd-streams\">best iptv provider<\/a>.\u00a0 Converted a whole set of Girls basketball games from a tournament in Wisconsin. These were raw captures from a Canon GL2 which even though it&#8217;s only an SD video camera, still runs around $2K. I ended up encoding them 3 different times: 1600kbps@30fps, 800kbps@15fps, 400kbps@15fps, all mpeg4\/H.264.\u00a0\u00a0 It turns out the average Internet connection in Wisconsin isn&#8217;t quite the same as Comcast in San Francisco.\u00a0\u00a0 I was very impressed at how good the 400kbps videos looked. \u00a0 The page is a mix of all three, so you can see the difference yourself. \u00a0 Also, I need to plug <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flowplayer.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flowplayer <\/a>which made the integration with S3 a painless cut &amp; paste operation.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is that DVRMSToolkit can do all the things Handbrake does, but the UI&#8217;s are designed for vastly different purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the home theater consulting and installation work is beginning to pick up.\u00a0\u00a0 On the list of things to do is tossing up a gallery of my installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finally carved some time out after the 11PM feeding to do some more Media Center upgrades.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Following a tip from this 7MC config page, I installed the Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta to address a flash performance problem I was noticing.\u00a0 This, plus the ATI Catalyst 10.1 drivers did the trick.\u00a0 I now suspect&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/?p=384\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More 7MC and Video Streaming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,16,44,57,63,64,68,72,95,123,146,157],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-theater","tag-7mc","tag-amazon-s3","tag-commercial-skip","tag-digital-video-recording","tag-dvr","tag-dvrmstoolkit","tag-flash-performance","tag-handbrake","tag-media-center","tag-rsportz","tag-video-streaming","tag-windows-7","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}