Remote HD200: Movies Choppy, Recorded TV A-OK

[PeteCress]

I finally got an HD200 working at my son-in-law's house.

First thing I noticed was that playback of ripped DVDs was impossibly choppy and the sound was happening only occassionally.

Second thing I noticed was that playback of recorded TV (HD programs, I'm pretty sure) was A-OK.

Then I went to a movie that I had ripped to DVD fomat (.VOB....) and then converted to .MPEG.

Playing the DVD version: same-old-same-old.

Playing the .MPEG version: A-OK.

There's no such diff at home. Bandwidth?

Is there anything I can tweak on the server or HD200 to alleviate this?

Or should I bite the bullet and convert my ripped DVDs to .MPEG?

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by PeteCress

...Second thing I noticed...

Third and fourth things that I'm noticing:

- On a 1.1ghz Atom netbook over WiFi, DVD playback is iffy: sometimes
it is OK, other times there are pauses. Nothing too heinous, but enough
tb a nuisance

- On the same netbook, same WiFi connection, less than 10 minutes later,
playback of the .MPG version of a DVD that was giving even more than
usual problems was smooth as one could ask for: no pauses, no nothing.


My conclusion: If one can live without a DVD's menu structure, subtitles are not needed, and one can live without special effects like director's commentary, DVDs are best ripped to a non-native-DVD format like .MPG if one wants to watch them under anything but ideal CPU/bandwidth circumstances.