Take SFTP for example, something I know a bit more about as I run an SFTP server for work, plain old FTP will exhaust our network bandwidth, however SFTP given than the CPU on the server is encrypting data as it leaves and then the client end has to decrypt with their FTP client using their CPU will bind the performance to those two things no matter the network speed potential. Streaming content in that manner is going to hit performance issues somewhere. Broadly speaking Mega is encrypted so I assume the content needs decrypting on the media player side when it arrives, from what I understand generally about computers is that that will be a CPU task. One of the things we need to realise about Infuse is that it is always going to be limited by the processing power of the Apple TV, Infuse can develop the most efficient piece of software ever but it will always be restricted by its platform, I love Infuse and personally think its the best option out there but it will have limitations. Is better playback support through clouds something infuse can work on in future updates ? Or is there nothing that infuse can do for performance issues ? I’m also curious about the Mega issue, wouldn’t it be on infuse (or any media player app) to resolve playback issues ? because clouds are just storage that provide the the content, where as media players are made to play files with better support & options. I thought setting up your own server was for enthusiasts, because they are the main ones that have custom setups and are willing to spend hundreds to thousands to have there own home media center, Is there an option where I can download a file directly into infuse to avoid the lag ? Probably want you to download your files and stream from your own local server. that’s why I asked if the problem could be adressed on there end, if it’s a server issue or can an update on infuse help with performance with cloud services. But the one difference is, I don’t use Mega to play movie files on my pc, the same file big that lags on infuse (through mega) I have downloaded on my pc and it plays perfectly with no lags, no matter if I rewind or fast forward it will play like normal, now if I try fast forward through infuse it will immediately give me the loading circle. Infuse is great for sure but some files perform better then others, and it varies on the reasons. This whole time I assumed everyone was having the same issues until a couple people here said they could play 80gbs files with no lag. I’ve been having this issue ever since I used infuse and from the beginning I was under the impression that it was an issue on Infuse backend because a cloud service isn’t going to support a large batch of video files and have the best performance, that’s not what it’s designed for & that’s where infuse comes in, it deals with better performance and supports almost all video files because that’s it’s primary purpose, So Mega is primarily a cloud service, it does offer paid storage but that’s it, it’s about storage not performance, I happen to be a paid subscriber so if that where true, then I wouldn’t have this issue. Mega is a paid service right, maybe higher pay thresholds being better performance, I don’t know I’ve not used it. It is true AES encryption which is present with Mega along with things like SSH for SFTP and even SMB cause over heads and reduce the actual throughput of the file transfer…in addition yes error correction and so on will do the same but with a theoretical maximum 400Mbps from a known good server and a download from Mega resulting in 20Mbps along with a ton of peaks and troughs, in my opinion we are looking at poor service from Mega, perhaps if you pay for the better cloud services the better the eventual transfer speed will be. We can not blame over heads for that difference. The Infuse speed test was also showing a graph which jumps up and down. This guys average speed on the Speed Test for the 1080p.mp4 was 23.31 Mbps, the internet speed test separate from Infuse was around 400Mbps from the same device (ATV). The point I have been making all along was to see ‘best case’ what can the ATV get in bandwidth. No but its a means of checking his baseline, for all we knew his Apple TV could have been in a location in his property getting totally wrecked for WIFI signal seeing as we established he only uses WIFI. Overhead, and error correction along with network errors and quality of the connection over the duration of the video will all come into play. As said, what you see in speed test doesn’t mean you can stream video from a remote server.
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