Setting up a movie server.

[BadNewsBears]

I want to run a server with movies on it, adn have a laptop on a wireless network connect to it and watch movies.I have pleenty of space on the server. I want to know if I can do something like in wndows media player, it will like cache the movie, sorta. Like Say I om on the lappy and in wmp and i play a movie, will the dlink airplus DI-614+ have enough bandwith without the movie being choppie?....IN wmp when downloading a mvie from the net it will sit there and download it to a certain point, until it is able to play it with overrunning the cache. WHat can I do?

 

[sc0tty8]

if your going to go wireless, I would use dual nics and bridge them, also, I tihnk there is a version of media player for streaming video.....

Isn't there something like shoutcast that can do this?

 

[Garion]

You should be JUST fine, assuming that you have a clean connection to the server. A bit of math, as painful as it might be, is called for..

Worst case - Your 90 minute movie is 2 CD's large, 1400MB. This means you pull down about 15.5 MB per minute, or .25MB per second. That works out to about 2.5Mb/s. Not a significant amount of bandwidth.

Considering that most people encode movies to 1 CD in length, half of this bandwidth, you should be fine. Your only problem would be any kind of issue with the wireless network - Someone else making a call on a 2.4 Ghz cordless, etc. that could cause interference and spotty connectivity.

- G

 

[Woodchuck2000]

It'll work fine for the reasons garion gives. Don't try and do anything relating to streaming media - it'll work just fine watching the movie off straight off the hard disk.

 

[jonmullen]

I belive if you have a Server OS of 2000 they have a the ability to stream. Just and idea.