tekzilla online streams failing consistently

[kricker]

I have tried to watch several episodes of tekzilla thru the online videos section. The smaller dailies play fine, but the longer full episodes always hang about 5/6 of the way thru the show. I have to stop the playback 'cause I just get the spinnig wheel and very stuttery playback. Any ideas?

[davephan]

Originally Posted by kricker

I have tried to watch several episodes of tekzilla thru the online videos section. The smaller dailies play fine, but the longer full episodes always hang about 5/6 of the way thru the show. I have to stop the playback 'cause I just get the spinnig wheel and very stuttery playback. Any ideas?

I download the Tekzilla streams first on the computer. I watch them with SageTV later as an imported video.

I also download Cranky Geeks and DL.TV videos and watch them as imported videos.

Dave

[kricker]

We'll I COULD download, but that's what streaming is for right

[kricker]

No one else having this issue?

[Opus4]

I tried one of the longer ones -- it took a long time to download, but it played fine.

Is your problem that it isn't downloading completely, or playback is stopping? If it is just playback, try waiting for the download to complete before continuing playback, or save it to the library by using the Record button (or pop-up menu option), then try playing that imported video.

- Andy

[kricker]

Originally Posted by Opus4

I tried one of the longer ones -- it took a long time to download, but it played fine.

Is your problem that it isn't downloading completely, or playback is stopping? If it is just playback, try waiting for the download to complete before continuing playback, or save it to the library by using the Record button (or pop-up menu option), then try playing that imported video.

- Andy

It is just playback. The progress bar shows it has completed downloading. I'll try to save it and see what happens.

[kricker]

I tried to save the stream, but I waited until it started having issues and it didn't save. At ~ 36 mins in it always freezes then plays about 1 frame every 15 second or slower. If I try to let it run it finally just quits playing and goes back to the previous screen.

I'm gonna try to save it again.

[kricker]

Well (after a system crash due to a hard-drive with bad sectors) I did a total system rebuild. Now the streams are working perfectly fine. I'm not sure what's different, but it works...go figure. Now if I can just get my USB-Uirt to wake the system from S3 like it did before.....but that's a different story.