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freelander

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hi
long time since i have had to post but need some help, i have my humax connected to my router by powerlines
, i can start a film playing threw the network from my pc but it will stop playing after 20/25 minuets saying network connection lost , i can press play and it will start again from the begining till it gets to 20/25 mins and it happens again
windows 8.1 with classic shell ,servio media software and used windows media player and both the same ,
any ideas please its driving me nuts
 
Have you tried using VLC ? Either the standalone PC app, and 'Open Network Stream' using the DLNA URL from the webif Media Details, or directly from the webif browser via the VLC plug-in. Both of these options work fine for me on recordings well in excess of 25 minutes. May help to give you some idea of whether it's a network problem or not. (I use powerline adapters too).
 
freelander said:
film length varies from 1.5 hrs to 2hrs 15mins network disconnects at virtually 25 mins every time
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I'm trying to establish how many megabytes of data 25 minutes represents. There may be a bug somewhere in your overall system which crashes the connection after (say) 2GB - these things have been known.
 
thanks for your replys

its an HDR FOXT2 software is 1.03.12 updated feb 7 2014 , this has only just started, used to play perfect before, been connected for over a year iplayer and portal work correctly ,it only happens when streaming a film films vary from 688mb to 2.5gb ,its manly xvids i am playing
 
Ah, so the PC is the server and the HDR-FOX is accessing content using Media >> Storage >> Network - I didn't get that from the OP. I would start by (temporarily) eliminating the HomePlugs from the equation.

There used to be a fault in the DLNA client which prevented it exceeding the 4GB point, but that was fixed ages ago and I have not seen any similar complaint about 1.03.12.
 
I know this May sound silly but does your PC have built in Bluetooth? If it does I had the same problem with my windows 8.1 laptop. Tried to stream content from my laptop to other devices but my wireless connection on the laptop kept cutting out. I turned off Bluetooth and didn't have the problem again.


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i think i have found the problem this is what i was playing
ViDEO: 1100 kbps XviD
RESOLUTiON: 640x272
RUNTiME: 2h45m0sec
SUBTiTLES: N/A
AUDiO: 128 CBR mp3
size 1.45gb

i converted to
video mpeg4 1500kbps
audio mp3 192kbps

i used AVS video converter 8.3 and the film played
 
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