Artifacting/pixelation on player hosted videos

[Necricia]

I joined a channel/room where someone was showing 3d movies, I assume from their computer.

The video stream on the big screen was just distorted and pixelated like it was having decoding issues.

I joined the official channel for the 3d trailers and they played fine. I picked a random movie on the rent category and watched a trailer, it also worked fine.
Tried the other room again and had the same problem.

At that point I assumed it was just his connection causing the issues and tried a different player hosted room.
That one had the same issues.
Tried two more player hosted rooms and both had the exact same problem, and they each only had 1 other person in them at the time.

Highly unlikely to be a problem with my connection as the official channels work fine(also tried some of the TV rooms and they worked perfectly) and I have gigabit with no streaming service issues anyway.

Is there something I can do/check to figure out what is causing this? Does Bigscreen use system software decoders that maybe I need to install/reinstall?

[martinmartyzzz]

That's a weird one. When you watch the 3D trailers the content is obviously coming from Bigscreen's servers. When you go in the player hosted rooms you have p2p connection to host of the room, as do all guests, thus dividing hosts's outbound bandwidth among the guests. It seems unlikely that you would pick several hosts with insufficient bandwidth to support two guests, but even more unlikely that your GB connection would be causing the problem.

Just curious if all the rooms you tried were like 4 player max, or some low number. If so, maybe they *were* all crappy and that is why they had it set so low. Curious if you tried any of the more reputable hosts such as Deepzone. These guys have connections like yours and routinely serve quality video to full rooms. 3D or 2D shouldn't make any difference as same number of pixels going over the wire (hope I'm not talking out my ass there).

I would keep trying some more 3D hosts, concentrating on hosts that seem to have a decent number of happy guests, i.e. >1. If you are using VPN I would try it without. Same goes for wifi. I know that does not account for the fact that your watching of the official Bigscreen content works fine. It's just what I would try for a test.

Again I hope I am not talking out my arse, but I think any decoding would occur on the host machine, as you are merely getting a copy of their desktop.

I'll be interested to see what you find out on this question. I'd be happy to put on a 3D movie and test it with you but I already know my ISP sucks. Good luck.

[Necricia]

I believe all the ones I tried were 10 or 8.
I know the first one, with the 3d movies, was 10 and near capacity.

One of the last I tried was 8 max I believe, but only one other person in there.
The rooms I picked were a mix of 3d or not, though. I was just sort of picking stuff at random to try.

And yeah, no VPN or WiFi.


Pretty much any cause I can think of doesn't make sense because of the official content working fine.

[Peregrine]

It's most likely on the host's end. While we recommend having a certain about of bandwidth to stream, many people ignore that, or don't know how much bandwidth they actually have.

[Necricia]

Yeah, after popping in to another 5 or 6, I finally found a couple that didn't have the issue. Must have just been a ton of people ignoring it.
I just assumed it was something on my end since at least 2 rooms were almost full and you would think people wouldn't sit and "watch" that, lol.

[TragicDelight]

First off you need to give it enough time to buffer for you before it will clear up. Also the host may be at his upload speed/players in room limit.