Ngrab Recording

[tmsani]

I have setup Ngrab for recording programs to my Hard disk.It is recording at good quality one problem i have is when the recording happens the network breaks for few seconds and then it reconnects again i loose couple of seconds every 3 minute.

Do i need to alter any configuration in Ngrab to avoid this problem?

[LeroyPatrol]

I have setup Ngrab for recording programs to my Hard disk.It is recording at good quality one problem i have is when the recording happens the network breaks for few seconds and then it reconnects again i loose couple of seconds every 3 minute.

Do i need to alter any configuration in Ngrab to avoid this problem?

what sort of network and what speed? 10/100/wireless?? I have mine @ 100M and no problems.

Leroy

[tmsani]

what sort of network and what speed? 10/100/wireless?? I have mine @ 100M and no problems.

Leroy

11 Mbps wireless

[fandtm666]

to slow for video streaming

[jonc]

to slow for video streaming

Not correct IMHO (sorry) as your Dm box only needs 4mbs for effective streaming and any 10mb / 11mb network connection will work well ..

[fandtm666]

i would disagree but then it has a lot to do with all other things connected to the router as well as any other interferance.

i have tested myself with 11 and 54 and the 11 is far from stable but if it works for you all well and good but i have never seen a stable stream run off an 11mbs setup and this was all with in a 6 meter distance of each unit because as far as im concerned if you are that close you may as well have it hard wired

[nfnovice]

11mb wireless network is the theoretical maximum
usually not achieved in real world use
interference, distance and equipment limitations all have an impact
best result is run wired 100base to a pc on network
use vlc on that to transcode out to wireless laptop at lesser rate
here is my streamforlan.bat to run on server

"%ProgramFiles%\VideoLan\VLC\vlc" :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=2048,scale=1,acode c=mpga,ab=64,channels=1}:duplicate{dst=std{access= http,mux=ts,dst=pcserverip:1234}}

Then my laptop connects to the pcserverip:1234 with vlc and pics are smooth as and reasonable quality - same principle can take the stream all the way down to net size sub 500k stream
your mileage may vary..

[scrappydoo]

to slow for video streaming

802.11b is definitely no good. ngrab works very very well on 100mbit ethernet. Even at supposedly 54mbit/s wireless it was still pretty poor. (that;s if you always get 54)

[jonc]

802.11b is definitely no good. ngrab works very very well on 100mbit ethernet. Even at supposedly 54mbit/s wireless it was still pretty poor. (that;s if you always get 54)

What sort of speed do you think ngrab streams back to your PC?

[KenKen]

Hi, I am using 802.11b with signal strength 'excellent' and mine is no problem on running ngrab and the quality of the video is very good. I also measured the bandwidth usage during the streaming, the average is 2.5mbps.

So 802.11b is working fine with me.

[jonc]

Hi, I am using 802.11b with signal strength 'excellent' and mine is no problem on running ngrab and the quality of the video is very good. I also measured the bandwidth usage during the streaming, the average is 2.5mbps.

So 802.11b is working fine with me.

Thanks for that, I am glad I am not alone in my thinking ...