help playing stream

"dellsweig" wrote:

"KennyJ" wrote:
I can't seem to get a video to stream through TVersity. I used the Simple Video example and put the TVeristy link in there and it wasn't working. I did successfully pull up the jpg on my network through TVersity though.

I had set TVersity up to transcode to WMV and tried playing a Youtube video. Not only does it not play, it reboots my Roku.

I just gave up on the TVersity solution.. It seems it is taking the stream from the XM player and writing the conversion to a file. When I connect to the "tversity" feed I always go to the beginning of the file - instead of the real time feed. Thee seems to be a huge amount of I/O as well - the disk light is lite up on my quad core PC and cpu is all over the place.

Well - back to square one....

I was going to mention this to you, but see you already found this out. You were going to lose quality and speed because TVersity will convert your source to what it wants to in order to play. It works fine in other settings, but being able to play a file directly to a box (ie the Roku) with no transcoding (other than the hardware end) will utlmately be faster.