smst Wrote: > I noticed something odd about the playback of one of my unsuccessful DTS > WAV experiments earlier. This version is the one that produced perfect > output for 5 seconds, then went quiet. I noticed that, during the > silent part, if I moved up and down in the Now Playing list (just using > the up/down arrows, not actually selecting anything to play) I'd hear a > fraction of a second of sound. It was too brief to tell for sure, but > I wonder if the sound I heard was the next piece of sound due when the > silence began -- or if it was somehow unmuting the sound briefly at the > position indicated by the player. (When this track goes quiet, the > track progress indicator continues to increment.) > > Does anyone know what could explain this phenomenon? I don't see why > moving through the playlist should change the sound output... I wonder > if I placed a briefly higher load on the server every time I moved up > or down, which in turn changed the rate at which the data was delivered > to the player... I don't know, I'm just guessing now. It's beyond my > epertise to diagnose. Replying to myself...
I've just tried disabling the WAV->FLAC conversion (streaming my DTS-WAV file directly to the player without using FLAC) and this problem has gone away. I guess that either the encoder or decoder couldn't keep up -- I was using a low frame size which left the file essentially unpadded, so the FLAC was the same size as the WAV. So now I have a different problem... the song sounds marginally too slow. The difference is slight enough that I wonder if it's being played back at 44100 Hz instead of 48000 Hz (the file is marked as being the latter). -- smst _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
