Streaming to Xbox 360 question: framerate

[feo]

My setup:

I have my PC in my bedroom along with my wireless router. The 360 is in the lounge connected to another router that acts as a wireless bridge and get's it connection from my bedroom. Playing on Live is fine, no lag or anything.

Streaming from my PC to the 360 also works fine but it seems when I play certain files (350MB TV episodes ) the framerate is a tad low. The average person wouldn't be able to tell but there's definitely a lower framerate than when I play it straight on my PC. If I set the Display Mode to "Native" I get the usual small video playing in the middle of my TV with huge black bars around it and the framerate there seems fine. So that leads me to believe that the slow framerate happens only when the video had to be blown up to full screen.

I have a Samsung PS42A410 Plasma.

This thead is probably gonna die with 0 replies but I'm hoping someone out there will have an idea on why it does this.

PS. I played an HD video (LittleBigPlanet gameplay video from gametrailers.com) and that played smooth as silk.

 

[werner]

those tv episodes, the ones from the states, the good old u.s.a, well, they use a different framerate to us here in pal land. the jerky bits you are seeing is probably not a lower framerate...it is probably higher, and this is causing hassles.

a bit of a hurry to explain right now, so cant type much, but think about it..

 

[feo]

those tv episodes, the ones from the states, the good old u.s.a, well, they use a different framerate to us here in pal land. the jerky bits you are seeing is probably not a lower framerate...it is probably higher, and this is causing hassles.

a bit of a hurry to explain right now, so cant type much, but think about it..

Well, I'd prefer to wait for a proper explanation.

I'll start googling in the mean time.

EDIT. Right clicking the avi files in question shows that they have a framerate of 23fps. Why is it that they play fine on my PC's LCD then?

 

[quovadis]

Feo - what are you using to stream the video? Windows Media Center?

 

[feo]

Feo - what are you using to stream the video? Windows Media Center?

TVersity

 

[quovadis]

Is TVersity transcoding the movies/tv shows with the changed frame rate?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Maybe the PC itself is also struggling a bit with the transcoding and streaming?

 

[Syphonx]

Maybe the PC itself is also struggling a bit with the transcoding and streaming?

but it only transcodes unplayable formats, and those tv shows are usually AVI which doesnt need transcoding.

 

[feo]

How exactly do I check whether TVersity is transcoding the file or not?

 

[quovadis]

When you set up your folders to share you can edit them and specify to transcode when required or always etc.