Was on vacation far from home the last 2 weeks so got ample opportunities to try OOH streaming. Must say it got very annoying at times. I got this infamous error more times than I care to count:
Problem Streaming
An unknown error occured.
What makes it more annoying is right after getting the error I'd go back and start stream right away again and it would continue without issue for a while but then eventually give me the error again.
Also, most of the time the video quality was only 2 or 3 bars giving me a fuzzy picture. Switching to Slingbox using the same connection would give me much better picture quality after letting the stream buffer for 30 seconds or so. But using Slingbox trick play to skip commercials was very annoying as well due to the latency involved, but at least the Slingbox was reliable in terms of connection and video quality unlike the Stream.
So overall I was quite disappointed with OOH Stream and glad I had Slingbox available as an alternative. I wish my experience had been more favorable but there you have it. I could almost tolerate/forgive the fuzzy picture over shaky connections, but the "Unknown error" made it unbearable.
P.S. I did also try using downloads instead of streaming on a couple of occasions, however the download speeds @medium quality were < 1 Mbps and estimated download time for a 1 hour show was on the order of 1.5 hours, so that wasn't really practical.
Problem Streaming
An unknown error occured.
What makes it more annoying is right after getting the error I'd go back and start stream right away again and it would continue without issue for a while but then eventually give me the error again.
Also, most of the time the video quality was only 2 or 3 bars giving me a fuzzy picture. Switching to Slingbox using the same connection would give me much better picture quality after letting the stream buffer for 30 seconds or so. But using Slingbox trick play to skip commercials was very annoying as well due to the latency involved, but at least the Slingbox was reliable in terms of connection and video quality unlike the Stream.
So overall I was quite disappointed with OOH Stream and glad I had Slingbox available as an alternative. I wish my experience had been more favorable but there you have it. I could almost tolerate/forgive the fuzzy picture over shaky connections, but the "Unknown error" made it unbearable.
P.S. I did also try using downloads instead of streaming on a couple of occasions, however the download speeds @medium quality were < 1 Mbps and estimated download time for a 1 hour show was on the order of 1.5 hours, so that wasn't really practical.
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