On Nov 18, 2006, at 2:05 PM, snarlydwarf wrote:
and that is the real trick to deciding the size of buffering streams.
Do you provide the user with a nice realtime response and start
playing
as soon as you have the first couple of frames? In practice, that
ends
up being awful: a slight network delay will make the stream stop/start
painfully.
Or do you have a nice fat buffer immune to all but the most severe
outages? But who wants to wait 10 minutes to actually hear the
station
they clicked on?
Perhaps a player-setting could be added to allow people to tweak it
from the default so in cases of network problems they can be more
patient at the start to avoid cutout problems. The Squeezebox should
have plenty of RAM for more buffering than people could possibly want.
And this is exactly what the "Radio Station Buffer Seconds" value is
for.
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