Andy Grundman;155790 Wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the explanation, Doug. -- Dougal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dougal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5489 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29287 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
