Placeshifter works over LAN, but not over Internet

[dflachbart]

Hi,

I am not able to use Placeshifter over the Internet, I get only a few seconds of video, and then just a black screen, often followed by connection loss. Up to now I always thought that my uplink bandwidth must be the root of the problem (although I have cable 768/256, and other tools report >= 200 kbps consistently), I tried it from work as well as from a friends DSL connection, but without any success.

But a few days ago I installed ORB on one of my machines and set up the SageTV recording directory as a media folder. Then I connected from work, and what surprise, I was able to watch my SageTV recordings at 150 kbps (orb reported a consistent uplink speed of 195 kps) without stuttering or any other problems ... !

This would mean to me that my uplink bandwith should be absolutely sufficient for streaming, and that there is some other problem specific to Placeshifter ... I would *really* like to get this working, and now I'll definetly open a support request for this issue, but in the meantime maybe someone here has any ideas why the heck streaming with Placeshifter would not be working ?

Thanks,
Dirk

[SHS]

Have try manually specify the encoder parametes to low 100kbps maybe that will help

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by SHS

Have try manually specify the encoder parametes to low 100kbps maybe that will help

Hi SHS,

yeah I even turned it down to the lowest possible settings 50 kbps video / 32 kbps audio, but it didn't change anything ...

Dirk

[dflachbart]

Just an update:
The new v6.0 beta fixed this for me !!


Dirk