hemmer
2006-01-04, 11:07
ok here is exactly what i want to do and i want to know if anyone can do it or if there is a setting that i can set or if someone will help me figure this out.
i have a web server i want to put a file on the server like a .avi file then i make a .m3u file with the http link to the file inside it. then i put it in my playlists dir and when i go into video in xbmc i click it and it takes time to cache and figure out what filetype it is and it starts playing. i know that the file is being downloaded to the cache then it plays it and i assume as it plays it its deleted to make room for more movie in the cache and it just keeps doing that until its over im not 100% on how that works. this file is not on a stream server its on a web server and its a normal xvid encoded .avi or its a nero encoded mp4 which does work better on playback than an avi but still is the same concept here its a video that is not streamed its just a normal video. now all that works but 90% of the time i will get buffering and halts and the video doesnt playback right and sometimes the video will play perfect through the whole thing. the problem i think i am having is that my webserver limits the connection somehow where i can only get maybe 100kb or so when i make an http connection to a file but if i use a download accelerator type program i can make like 8 connections and get 800kb or more.
so with that said is there a way that the mplayer or xbmc or a python script something where when xbmc grabs a url or a file to stream whatever you can set it to make multiple connections to make the file download faster? or is there a setting somewhere that you can set it to do that already.
also im not sure if its a problem with just my cache size i am not sure what it should be set at for for the internet video which controls that cache for the video i am trying to play but ihave tryed many different settings and i cant seem to get that to fix it so if you have a suggestion on that let me know too.
if anyone can help please do i think that this would be something that everyone would want as a feature or an option to make downloading faster and video streaming work better.
i have a web server i want to put a file on the server like a .avi file then i make a .m3u file with the http link to the file inside it. then i put it in my playlists dir and when i go into video in xbmc i click it and it takes time to cache and figure out what filetype it is and it starts playing. i know that the file is being downloaded to the cache then it plays it and i assume as it plays it its deleted to make room for more movie in the cache and it just keeps doing that until its over im not 100% on how that works. this file is not on a stream server its on a web server and its a normal xvid encoded .avi or its a nero encoded mp4 which does work better on playback than an avi but still is the same concept here its a video that is not streamed its just a normal video. now all that works but 90% of the time i will get buffering and halts and the video doesnt playback right and sometimes the video will play perfect through the whole thing. the problem i think i am having is that my webserver limits the connection somehow where i can only get maybe 100kb or so when i make an http connection to a file but if i use a download accelerator type program i can make like 8 connections and get 800kb or more.
so with that said is there a way that the mplayer or xbmc or a python script something where when xbmc grabs a url or a file to stream whatever you can set it to make multiple connections to make the file download faster? or is there a setting somewhere that you can set it to do that already.
also im not sure if its a problem with just my cache size i am not sure what it should be set at for for the internet video which controls that cache for the video i am trying to play but ihave tryed many different settings and i cant seem to get that to fix it so if you have a suggestion on that let me know too.
if anyone can help please do i think that this would be something that everyone would want as a feature or an option to make downloading faster and video streaming work better.