From: Dan Sully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 21, 2005 11:30:28 AM EST To: Slim Devices Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: [slim] Re: Slight skip five seconds into playing a song Reply-To: Slim Devices Discussion <[email protected]>
* Ben Galanti shaped the electrons to say...
I'm with you Glyn. I was having the same problem yesterday. I came upstairs to check the server and found that I had left my browser open to the Slimserver webpage. The playlist side of the webpage was being updated when the song switched to show the right information, and that was causing the skip. I think this dovetails with the other posts going
Ben - what skin are you using? I assume the server has finished scanning?
OS & version?
I think I've sent this to you before, but just in case it got lost in the ether somewhere. I've had this with the Default, Fishbone, and Light skins, those are all I've tried though. As far as I know the server is done scanning. The perl process is only using a few percent of the CPU when the player is stopped, at least. This is running 6.0b3 on MacOS X 10.3.5.
I tried having AAC transcoded to MP3 instead of AIFF tonight. That did seem to cure the dropouts. There was still a bit of a buffer dip when the page was reloading, but not enough to drain it like with AIFF streaming. Of course, there was the extra server load of LAME and my machine seemed noticeably less responsive. Interestingly (at least to me) the perl process itself took a considerably lower percentage of the CPU when streaming MP3 when compared to streaming AIFF (1-3% versus 10-15% respectively) I don't know if that helped with the server side dropouts or not.
Ben
Thanks.
-D
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<nil> It sucks to discover that you are the foremost authority on some set of things when you've got a problem.
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