Can You stream video on a wireless network ?

[grahamdvddvddvd]

I have most of my videos and music on another pc, I am making a wall mounted pc and it will be wireless with a usb dongle, can you stream actual full rate video over a wireless network ? or is it to slow ? I know music works fine but videos ?

[Luke122]

I've never been able to stream HD video (720p or better) but regular 480p yes.

[grahamdvddvddvd]

will it work using a ethernet cable connection on the network from one pc to another pc ?

[Luke122]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean..

You have the movies on one PC, and you want to stream them to another PC through an ethernet connection? If you are asking that about HD videos, then the answer is "MAYBE". 720p HD videos (at least the ones I have) are about 65mbit/s, so as long as your network can sustain that throughput, then the answer is yes.

If you have multiple computers on that network, then the additional traffic from them might interfere with the playback.

[haha49]

I've never been able to stream HD video (720p or better) but regular 480p yes.

I did with wireless n it would sometime get choppy for no reason but I think its just singal interferance.. if you use N extreme you shouldnt have any problems I ran a cable in the wall works much better

all I did was share the folder / Drive they were on make a shortcut on the computer I wanted to use and done.. click click play done simple as that once shareing is setup you need a user and pass the same on both computers I dont like that.. I like no password but to share files you have to have a password..

[p0Pe]

winamp has a streaming agent if you can use that for anything:D just FYI. havent playd with it alot though.

[Luke122]

I've used the Winamp Remote (it's an Orb client actually) with some success.. videos were pretty choppy (to my cell phone from my PC, so network speed was the likely culprit) but audio was flawless (well, MP3's were.. FLAC is another story).