ActiveX Test

[dlbiderman]

All, we're currently testing a new piece of technology that enables us to post NSV files that play in a webpage. We're looking for as many people to try this out and let us know how the experience was for them. Plus, the video is f**kin hilarious. The page is located here: http://winamp.com/videos/activex/index.html

Please reply with feedback.


Cheers,
David Biderman

[Tomato Face]

That was nice! Took up a lot of cpu, but that can be expected for high quality streaming video. Yay Nullsoft.

[dlbiderman]

How much CPU? And what kind of box were you using?

[YtseJam]

Hm, the sound was very choppy(sp?) here...

AMD Athlon 1.13GHz, 256MB RAM, Windows98, MSIE 5.5. My Internet connection is ADSL(320/128).

:(

btw, I see that you're going to support Netscape in the future.
Are there any plans to also have support for Opera support as well...?

[Sawg]

WinXP SP1
Dell i8200 (P4 1.6 GHz (Running at 1.34GHz, Speed Step), 256DDR)
ASU Ethernet Connection
IE6 SP1
Averaging around 40-45% CPU load.

The volume was kind of low, but that may be the video it's self. (Can you do volume control with ActiveX?)

[dlbiderman]

Sawg, yes it's possible.....we just didn't expose it in the web page for some reason.

Nant, the choppiness that you're seeing is because it's ~300kbps stream and you have ~300kbps downstream. So basically you can barely get a stream of that bitrate. However buffering tweaks may make this problem less noticable.

[Ice]

extremely cool. extremely choppy to the point it was unwatchable.

ECS k7s5a motherboard
1.4gHz Athlon
512mb PC2100 DDR Ram
gForce 2mx 400
cable connection

[dlbiderman]

For those of you who saw choppy streams, could you run this speedtest:

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

and post the results?

thanks,
david

[YtseJam]

Download speed: 228kpbs
Upload speed: 80kpbs

But... Since I live in Israel and that server(that the test was conducted on) is located in the U.S., there's obviously some slowdown.

[Ice]

download 222kbps
upload 330kbps

i think my connection might just being 'friendly' it's been up/down and just strange for the past week. might just be my network card.

[crfx]

that looked real nice for streming vid.
was only taking 40% of my 733 p3 and ran nice and smooth. 800K download helps too.

[lunarboy1]

mine was real choppy:

1381 kbps dL
230 kbps UL

866mhz WinME IE6.0 sp1

[Tomato Face]

I have a 1.33ghz AMD Athlon currently underclocked to 1Ghz
Geforce 2 MX 400
256 DDR RAM
WinXP
Cable internet connection

It ran smooth with processor usage between from 40-50%. The lowest processor use I noticed was 37% at times and the highest 67%. Not bad for a high quality 300k stream.

[deepu_s]

it was extremely smooth and clear for a streaming vid...im shocked

[s0be]

crystal clear and smoothe here

2x athlon 1600s
windows xp sp1
Ati AIW 128 (miracle this thing still works)
512 mb pc2100 ddr
oc3 :D

"These tests work reliably up to about 5mbit or so"

2456 kbps Down
2232 kbps Up

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[~Gadabout~]

It was very very smooth on my part. I couldn't really tell what my cpu usage was, I was watching a DivX movie at the same time. :-)

(I was also downloading a couple of things at the time, in access of 200kbps. And also streaming 128k)

Quick specs:
AthlonXP 1800+@1632
768MB DDR RAM
WinXP Pro
Cable Modem

[dlbiderman]

Lunarboy, your report is curious because it looks like you have quite adequate processor and bandwidth to have had a smooth experience. When you tried the video were you doing anything else processor intensive? Could you tell us what your peak processor usage is when you watch the vid?

Thanks,
david

[Cody]

P4 2.0ghz 512ram
sDSL
32% cpu

stop, pause, and play all work fine.

[Ubiquitous]

Man, made me blow the dust off of IE.

Works great here! I'll test again with Mozilla once you get it working there ;)

[Christophe]

Okay, we updated the control to v0.9. It fixes the jerkyness playback on Windows 98/Windows ME.

Please try it again if you experienced jerkyness before. If it still happens, make sure that your connection can support 300kbps downstream :)

-Christophe

[Silly22]

ActiveX component installs fine.

Video and audio streaming is quality! and not choppy

and I'm using a PII-300.
with an ADSL connection

Pretty impressive!

[Naamloos]

P2 300 mhz, 64 mb ram, win 98 second edition
Cable connection (The netherlands)

No problemos, works :up:

[lunarboy1]

wow.. NSV .98 is a hell of a lot beter than .3! I like it!

[dlbiderman]

Lunarboy,

So then was there no choppiness or was there still some?

[lunarboy1]

no it was all good now :) smooth as ever!

Also fullscreen didn't flinch with my system. And i'd didn't look too bad... a little bit of ugly blending but thats expected when my screen size is like twice the size of the movie. Nice job!

[will]

hehe, great job!

one small thing. To get out of fullscreen, i am used to hitting esc on the keyboard, but that don't work with this. I know a mouse click gets you out of fullscreen, but esc is also used in the winamp3 video.

[Ice]

it works now. tons of fun!

last time the cable was just being slow.

[binary hero]

works perfect without sound on this 'ere oc3 (45% cpu usage, duron 1.1Ghz's, 256DDR).

[lunarboy1]

mmmmm oc3.... :cool: