Hmm, so it reported exactly half the number of buffers played relative to blocks downloaded and 32 bits per sample rather than the 16 in the blocks. Seems too much of a co-incidence to me. Could it be that the blocks each contain 16 bits of data and two blocks are joined to make a 32 bit "buffer"?
> -----Original Message----- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of RS > Sent: 08 August 2017 10:42 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Playing BBC R3 FLAC files recorded by nightly VLC > > >From: Jim web > >Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 09:29 > > >The first half dozen or so Proms I've recorded work fine. Occasional 'TLS' > >errors about packets of unexpected length which seem to have no effect > on > >the recorded audio. > > >Some later recordings (but not the 'Ella and Dizzy' Prom) have begun giving > >me 'HTTPS' errors which represent a missed chunk of audio data. I suspect > >this *is* an 'overloading' issue but can't tell. In general these ruin the > >recording for me in terms of listening, but are useful for analysis > >purposes. [1] > > For Prom 30 yesterday evening the 64 bit 31 July nightly build of VLC > reported under its Statistics tab > Lost 0 buffers > Discarded (corrupted) 0 > Dropped (discontinued) 0 > There was something not quite right because it reported 180094 blocks > Decoded and 90047 buffers Played when they should be the same after > subtracting Lost. It also reported 32 bits per sample when Mediainfo > correctly reported 16. Even so the figures are encouraging. > > Since the FLAC stream includes all the R3 output during the trial you can > test whether a recent nightly build of VLC gives you better results than > ffmpeg without risking loss of a Prom. Of course it will not simulate the > extra load during the Prom. > > Delay was 2min51s behind FM. > > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
