Streaming with Front Row - Does it do it?
Hi there. I have 3 Mac's on my home network which are all connected via a Gig Switch situated in my Home Office.
All of the Mac's are connected to the Hub using Homeplug(Ethernet over Powercables) 200Mbps hardware, and I get excellent throughput when transferring files etc.
Yesterday for the 1st time my Daughter wanted to watch a film stored on the main Mac in the office on her iMac downstairs using Frontrow. (Two iMacs across network)
No Problem I said it's just like our AppleTV, you choose the library you want to use, and then pick the movie and you can watch what u like.
All my films are all encoded at 640x480 ratio and iPod ready so none of the movies are huge in any way.
We found the movie we wanted and clicked the remote, expecting a short delay and then the movie to start.
Not so!
It showed a black screen, and started downloading the movie but not playing.
It took around 35 minutes before it completed it's download and started to play!
Is this a known problem? I thought (Maybe I am wrong) that Frontrow would act like AppleTV and stream the movie not download the source into a cache on the remote iMac before being viewable??!
Do I have the wrong impression of Frontrow, is the software not capable of streaming in this way?
Many thanks for any help in advance
G
All of the Mac's are connected to the Hub using Homeplug(Ethernet over Powercables) 200Mbps hardware, and I get excellent throughput when transferring files etc.
Yesterday for the 1st time my Daughter wanted to watch a film stored on the main Mac in the office on her iMac downstairs using Frontrow. (Two iMacs across network)
No Problem I said it's just like our AppleTV, you choose the library you want to use, and then pick the movie and you can watch what u like.
All my films are all encoded at 640x480 ratio and iPod ready so none of the movies are huge in any way.
We found the movie we wanted and clicked the remote, expecting a short delay and then the movie to start.
Not so!
It showed a black screen, and started downloading the movie but not playing.
It took around 35 minutes before it completed it's download and started to play!
Is this a known problem? I thought (Maybe I am wrong) that Frontrow would act like AppleTV and stream the movie not download the source into a cache on the remote iMac before being viewable??!
Do I have the wrong impression of Frontrow, is the software not capable of streaming in this way?
Many thanks for any help in advance
G
iMac CoreDuo 2.0ghz iMac CoreDuo2 2.4Ghz Macbook Pro 2.0Ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
