Bandwith limit is ignored

[harlekein]

The PC I use as a media server is AMD Sempron 2800 (2GHz) and has 1 GB of RAM. This is probably the bottleneck in my setup for streaming 720p films. I have an ethernet 100Mbits connection. All wired.

I have tried various settings on the PS3 Media Server, but when streaming HD content the bandwith seems to peek a lot. I have my options set to Best Quality and the bandwith limit to 35Mbits/s. When I play the movie on my PS3 it will stutter, when I press select I see the video data is going well over 80Mbits/s.

So it appears to me that the option is being ignored by PS3 MEdia Server. (v1.04)

I have tried MEncoder and Avisynth/MEncoder both. The problem occurs with both options.

Edit: I thought maybe the CPU was causing it, so I set the quality to low for low-end CPU, but stuttering still occurs. Even though the video bandwith stays low.

[shagrath]

Not familiar with sempron CPU , but I guess it's a litle too old to easily transcode 720p

[harlekein]

You may be right. I'll have to try it via my laptop which should be up for the job easily, but then I'll have to rethink my network setup.