Hi

It made a big improvement but still 2sec delay into the Catalyst. So i think i will stick with the CIB for the "HighEnd" systems and go for ethernet with the cheaper.
We have to G4 with external FWdrives who makes the basic "mediaserver" job nicely. They are fitted with the Radeon8500. We use smaller media than usual for those machines.

I also have tried the MacMini and it does the same. You might want to scale down youre media though for smooth playback...

Abbe Westerlundh
Spectra Stage & Event Technologies
Sweden