Re: CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!

I went through the networking problems today and here is where I'm at:

 - VLC disconnects between playlist items.  As far as I can tell, the VLC
   player disconnects too.  I've added code that attempts reconnect, so
   this will work in the next release, but I'm not sure it's a great idea
   since VLC doesn't even intend this to work.
 - Network issues are dealt with better by attempting reconnecting up to 3
   times over 5 seconds before dying.  You may require a "ROTATE" after
   the reset, this will be fixed in a future release hopefully.  This code
   will be in the next release
 - Pause will not work well while streaming.  VLC doesn't throttle the
   stream based on the blocked http connection.  In fact, it starts the
   stream even before the first http stream connects up.  I think I'm
   going to have to write a VLC-side component to make this work well
   (much like the software that the SoundBridge will use to transcode audio)

CVS will be up to date tonight for those that are adventerous.  I'm gonna
shoot for a dot release by the end of the week (and then I'm on vacation
for 10 days!).


Sujal

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Barry wrote:

> I started playing with VLC to get around the Lip Sync problem. Am I doing something stupid ?? If I tell vlc to stream 1.vob,  2.vob etc vlc plays it fine, but CinemaSix drops back to the menu on file change.
> ..Barry
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>   From: Ron 
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>   Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 8:17 AM
>   Subject: [Roku-tech] CinemaSix... nearly perfect now! Thanks Sujal!
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>   I have a wireless laptop in my home theater (oh, ok, my tv room) and I am running XP's remote desktop on the laptop and the computer that is running vlc.  Using the remote desktop I can select the video I want to watch and, in most cases, move freely to any position in that video by moving vlc's slider.  The resulting video and AC-3 audio are excellent.  My only remaining problem (other than the occasional crash, etc.), is the fact that pause doesn't work for more than a few seconds.  For the first time since buying my HD1000 I can truly enjoy movies served from the computer.  Many thanks to Sujal for the hard work that made this day possible!
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