MPG streaming degrades and sound delay

[Daddy-o]

Running MM DLNA on a Windows 7 Pro PC, 64 bit with 6GB RAM, a few years old. The client is a Sony Blu-Ray box, BDP-S5100, a 2014 model.

The symptoms are, initially there is a delay between a visual stream and the sound stream. It's a couple of tenths of a second, kind of irritating but livable. Initially for the first couple of minutes there is also what appears to be some buffering issues, the audio and video randomly pause together for a couple of tenths of a second. After a couple of minutes both streams are smooth, but not together. (There is a certain word that starts with S-y-n-c like out-of-Sy... that I am avoiding because it is a product feature and also a popular topic.)

After about 20 minutes of watching a smootly watchable MPEG-1 file the streaming really starts to break down with frequent freezes that only last a tenth or two of a second, but may happen several times in one second. Over the course of ten seconds it may stutter like this twenty or thirty times.

These files play flawlessly in local media players like SPlayer, GOM, Windows Media and of course Media Monkey. In those local players the audio-video meshing is perfect too. The CPU utilization for local viewing in MM is lower than other players, about 35%, and the others are 50%-70%.

I've tried a variety of different fixes, hardwire cable connections instead of WiFi, expanding cache, changing CPU priority, making MM the only program running. When the DLNA streaming is running there is heavy CPU utilization, in the 90's. Before and after MM is started and closed the CPU is generally at 2% or below.

Any suggestions? --TIA

[Lowlander]

Auto-Conversion?

Also have you tried a different DLNA server and see if it has the same problem. If it does it may be the client that is causing the problem.