[Nook Color General] swapdotavi:
Update on my problem:

I put some more time in last night and I've come up with some strange new symptoms. What I thought was the VPN connection getting rejected somehow is actually my entire network taking a **** after a few seconds of playback (best I've gotten was like 2 minutes, worst has been ~5 seconds) and dropping every device.

I noticed my phone switched to 3G when I lost connection to VLC, and sure enough even stuff on a wired connection cant see my network for about 15 to 30 seconds after the streaming halts. During this time if I browse for wireless networks mine dosnt show up at all on any device, (tested on a 360, PC, phone, and tablet) but it'll show up just fine if I refresh the list in ~30 seconds.

It seems that the connection to VLC is causing my router (I assume it's the router) to freak out and do something really weird... I'm at a bit of a loss as to why that would happen. My network is very stable otherwise, but as soon as I start streaming to VLC every single time (over at least 12 or 15 attempts last night) my network shuts down for about half a minute. If I reset the wifi on my nook I can re-start the stream just fine, but then within, at most, 2 minutes my network drops again and I have to reset wifi again.

Again, I want to stress that my network is typically very reliable and this is very clearly being triggered by the nook-VLC connection. That connection might not be the root cause, (maybe I have a setting somewhere that shouldnt be turned on or something) but it's definitely the thing that's triggering the reset/outage/whatever.

So.... yeah... what the hell, nook? Has anyone ever even heard of something like this?

Tonight or tomorrow I'm going to actually look at my router and see what it's doing during this outage (power cycle, losing WAN, etc) because I didnt get to do that last night. I'll post what I find to try and provide more information.

Using the OPs settings with a 500ms cache time I've had perfect video playback with no skipping, fast buffer times, and quite good quality. (For the tiny bit of time I've gotten this working. Maybe your problems crop up after the 2 minute mark)

How fast is your PC? If I'm understanding the app correctly it's using VLC to transcode the video to MPEG4 on your PC, then stream it to your nook. If your PC cant transcode as fast or faster than the playback on your nook you'll hit performance problems. I *think* there might be a way to force VLC to 100% convert the video on your PC *then* start the stream, but who wants to wait 35 minutes to watch a 30 minute TV show?

If your PC is kind of borderline and you're not sure if this is the issue you can test it really easily by either a.) testing it on a friends more powerful PC or b.) trying to transcode in real time to another device using another app. If you have a PS3 or 360 you can use Tversity or PS3 media server to do this. It's basically exactly the same thing this app does, but it has its own PC side software instead of using VLC. If a different app to a different device does the same thing the issue is likely your PC.

My audio sync is also terrible though. I think the audio problem is probably really easy to fix with a settings change in the app itself, but I'm still working on getting the streaming bug-free so I've not been able to test it too much.

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Also, has anyone tried doing this over 3g by hosting a wifi hotspot from their phone and connected to it with your nook? (You'll need to follow one of the adhoc wifi guides on XDA to modify/replace your WPA stuff first) That's my ultimate goal, but I'm guessing that the ~100kb/sec download on 3G wont be fast enough for the nook's fairly high resolution.