[splify]

Assuming both sides have XBMC installed.

Sometimes when I play high quality 1080p over wifi I see a lot of buffering issues.

Is it possible to create a feature that would assist in the file processing of the network resource side so that the playing side can have some load taken off during playing?

I was wondering if the buffering issues are a direct result of the WiFi quality or would pre-processing on the storage resource side assist in mitigating the issue and help with performance.

Thanks.

[wsnipex]

playing high bitrate stuff over wireless is usually flaky, because of latency and throughput issues on wlan.
Transcoding would only help here indirectly in that it could lower the bitrate.

If your client device is generally capable of playing the file, then all you need is network caching, which is available via advancedsettings.xml in gotham builds. Note that this won't help with slow wlan and really bad reception.

[splify]

I will attempt investigating further into advancedsettings.xml - thank you.

Wouldn't lowered bit-rate mean less data going over wireless and in-turn allow for connectivity "hickups" to have less impact on the smoothness of playback,
thus allowing for lowered quality connection to handle better quality footage?
or would the difference simply be negligible.


*EDIT*
<advancedsettings>

<network>

# <cachemembuffersize>10000000</cachemembuffersize>
<alwaysforcebuffer>1</alwaysforcebuffer>
<readbufferfactor>4.0</readbufferfactor>
</network>

</advancedsettings>