Transcoding on multiple devices

[mcbarata 0]

Hi

 

I seem to have an issue that I'm unable to transcode / stream on different devices at once. Both devices are iPads

 

Scenario:

 

MB Server Version 3.0.5171.19958

 

Open MB dashboard via the Safari on the iPads. iPad 1 will start the stream and begin playing the movie. iPad 2 will start to stream and begin playing the movie. Once the movies start playing iPad 1 or iPad 2 will stop and "Could not load movie" "There was an error playing the video." whilst the other resumes playing the movie.

 

Sometimes only both of the iPads will stop playing the movie with the same above errors. I have adjusted the quality settings to see if perhaps it was a Wi-Fi bandwidth issue but the resolve was the same.

 

 

 

Thanks in advance

server-63530037778.log

ffmpeg-07f06e84-db4a-4879-84e7-a6087030ca05.txt

ffmpeg-aecb19d4-cedf-4973-af3b-d3a04fa0bb6b.txt

ffmpeg-a394b986-42d4-4879-ad19-8e6b9771cba2.txt

Edited March 10, 2014 by mcbarata

[ebr 16174]

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[mcbarata 0]

Anyone?

[ebr 16174]

When you edit a post, it doesn't show as new again so we didn't know you added the logs.

 

@@Tikuf is the man that can probably help.

[mcbarata 0]

Thanks bro... I'll hang in there

[w84no1 27]

Your server specs might help also.  The CPU is used to do the transcoding. 2 streams kill my slow server.  All of my devices use clients and direct play, only the iPad 1 uses the web client and transcoding.

[mcbarata 0]

My server spec are...

 

HP ML110 G3 Server

Xeon 3065 2.3 Ghz Dual core CPU

8 Gig ram

5 3tb SATA drives

 

Do you think my limitation is on the CPU? Most recommendations seem to point at a quad core i5 or i7

[w84no1 27]

I only have a core2quad CPU and my transcoded streams start to crap out at 2 if they are HD.  One way to test is to use the servers browser to start a stream and look at task manager and see how much CPU is being used, then start the stream on one of the iPads and see how much CPU is being used, keep adding devices to see if the CPU hits 100% when you get the error.

[Tikuf 663]

I see nothing in the ffmpeg logs. It is transcoding plenty fast enough. There are a lot of socket errors in the logs I'm not sure if they are the cause or not. It could also be the ios app?

 

@@darwindeeds @@Luke

 

Anything you guys can see that would be causing this behavior?