Serviio

What kind of computer are you running serviio on? Give all the information you can on it. ie CPU, Speed, memory operating system.

Maybe we can get someone to summarize this thread as we go so people can see what serviio runs on. If someone does let me know and I will add it to this 1st post.

I am running serviio on a computer that was given to me in 2004 with an Athlon 64 CPU with 2 Gig of memory. I am running Mint Debian 12 (linux).

Currently running on HP DV6 (Windows 7 Pro Intel Core-2 Duo T6400, 2GHZ, 4GB)

Works fine so far

Debian 6.0 x86 running on an Intel Atom D525 @1.8GHz (2 Cores, 4 Threads) with 1GB of RAM

Intel Core 2 Duo Cpu, E7500, 2.93GHz, 2GB RAM,
Intel MB (forgot which one)
Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, all plain vanilla.

Runs, but if several videos requiring transcoding are started one after the other, as might be the case while searching for a specific video), or scrolling through a folder, eventually slows down to the point that TV reaches timeout and video fails to play. Eventually catches up.
Service occasionally does not restart w/o rebooting the PC.

please make a post under support and attach your serviio.log file.

Ditto here ...not all the time, but more often than not for the HD feeds..I see you also have a core-2 cpu

HP Mini 110
intel Atom N270 1.6ghz 2 cores, 1GB memory 800 mhz
OS - Mint 12

Streams 2 videos all day long without issue.

Intel Pentium G620 Dual 2.6GHz
4 Gb Ram
Windows 7 x64
System Drive + 2 x 1Tb

I set this up to clear the shelves of all of the DVDs that have built up over the years, so in the last few weeks I've been loaded them, together with all of my wife's CD's.

At present the only hardware player I have is a Sony BDP-S580, but will be looking to get the other A/V equipment around the house connected. I tried a few DNLA servers but settled on Serviio as the one that had the most fervent user support and leadership, so well done guys!

Whilst Serviio is taking care of my video, online and image needs, I am using MediaMonkey for music in tandem as this is software I've used for many years in preference to iTunes and can now run as a DLNA server. This is mainly for the playlist functions it gives which are easy to set up in the program.

I do struggle a bit with the HD online feeds as my average download speed is around 4meg, but that can only get better. For movie information I use Yammm as this sits quietly in the background and automatically makes a nfo file to go with any new movies loaded.

Where possible network is wired. Where difficult, I'm using 200mps Homeplugs.

What I have been struggling with is a nice front-end. The Sony Blu-ray merely lists the folders which I can readily drill-down through but my wife is not so used to the 'Explorer' type interface. To this end I have now discovered KINSKY and that gives me the 'Play To' option that everyone is after. It was developed for Linn audio systems and is more UPnP than DLNA but is a great control point and is Open Source software. This means I can use my iPad, or laptop, to queue up different files to play on each renderer and provides a much prettier and more intuitive front-end including cover-art which my wife can easily use. It can be used on iPod/iPhone/iPad/Windows/MacOSX/Linux and PocketPC and is worth a play around with.

Overall I know that Serviio would run on a much lesser spec of PC, but because I'm running two background DNLA servers, want to have the ability to feed several players at the same time and prefer a storage upgrade option, this is the direction I've taken.

The original discs are now being stored away. They took up considerable more space than a small PC now tucked away in an upstairs cupboard - thanks mainly to Serviio! The other bonus is that my wife can much easier bore her friends with our holiday pictures on the main TV instead of me having to get them printed out.

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Intel Core i3 2120 @ 3.30GHz
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz
System Drive 1.5 TB Western Digital

Streaming to Xbox 360 and PS3

HP PC (older 2007 model)
Windows Vista 32-bit Premium, Ubuntu 11.10
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 2.40 GHz
2 GB Memory
320 GB HD
CPU Usage: 50-75% when playing live stream HDs, about 20-40% when playing SD live streams.

AMD 4600 x 2
4GB Ram
2 x 300gb hard disks
Running Debian Squeeze, though the computer also has 4 virtual servers running on it (using OpenVZ) as well as serviio
Not seen it break a sweat at all when streaming tbh, 98% idle when streaming for 2 and 1/2 hours to my Panasonic SC-BTT362. That was only using 1 core for transcoding.
1GB RAM used overall, but that includes memory used for X and the 4 virtuals. If I didn't need the serviio console now and again I'd disable X.

All good stuff. I do get some stuttering now and again during a movie, not that often, but I'm putting that down to only having 85MB homeplug, will be upgrading shortly.

Install one of the third party GUIs and then you do not need the serviio console and can access the serviio setting from any computer on the netowrk, or smartphone. android using serviidroid, apple using a browers. Look under third party tools.