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Anonymous
January 11, 2010
Question

can't get smooth streaming

  • January 11, 2010
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Hi,

  I have installed FMS 3.5 on three different machines with the same less-than-optimum result.  Two of the servers were virtual on VMware ESX3 and the third is on dedicated hardware:  Quad 2.33GHz CPU, 8GB RAM, Gigabit interface, Win 2003 Ent SP2 and all latest patches through 1/6/10.

The primary problem is when I connect three PCs to the default web page and start the Getty demo video, the delivery of the video is jerky.  There are pauses - orange rotating circle - and the motion looks almost like stop-action animation.

Being new to this technology, I installed the FMS with defaults.  But, I obviously need some help with optimization.  Can someone here direct me to what I need to study/read to understand how to make this machine work like it's supposed to?

All input is sincerely appreciated.

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    Terryvangeel
    Participant
    January 12, 2010

    Hallo

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    Anonymous
    January 12, 2010

    You say the problem occurs when you have 3 instances of the player connecting to the video. Do you get smooth playback when you connect only 1 player? If so, are you sure you have adequate bandwidth on the client side  to accomodate the bitrate of the video * 3 ?

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    Anonymous
    January 12, 2010

    No I was checking with you if you were playing the video over HTTP or RTMP.

    If you were playing it over HTTP you might see the jerkiness as it uses the progressive download.

    Do you see the video stalling even when you use RTMP to play the video?

    Thanks

    Mamata

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    Anonymous
    January 12, 2010

    Hi,

    I think you might have selected the option "play video (http)" on the default web page. If so then you are seeing the stalling in the video because it uses the progressive download.

    You could try playing the video by selecting "stream video(rtmp)" and check if you get a better experience.

    Thanks

    Mamata

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