I had exactly the same problem with mine when I first set it up, on a
very similar system to you.

Install LAME encoder into the main slimserver directory, and then
restart the slimserver service.  Then launch slimserver, and go to
Player Settings>Audio.  Enable bandwidth limiting - mine's at 320 still,
and the problem was resolved.  (If I set it to "no limit" I get the same
problem again).  The setting already WAS on 320, but it seems that I
needed LAME to be installed to do the on-the-fly MP3 encoding for me.

Dan.

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G Kolstad
Sent: 06 April 2005 02:11
To: [email protected]
Subject: [slim] AlienBBC 0.97 and BBC playout problem


I installed and started using AlienBBC with my squeezebox (rev 1) for
the first time tonight. I got everything to work ok, except all BBC
streams constantly drain the buffer, resulting in a ~5 second hiccup
every 20 seconds or so. If I play the same stream using mplayer from the
command line this doesn't occur. Any ideas of what I can do to remedy
this? Any more information I can provide that will be helpful?

Thanks.

Details
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SlimServer 6.0
Windows 2000
AlienBBC 0.97
MPlayer-mingw32-dev-CVS-050227
When I use Mplayer on the command line it seems to be
using "cook3260.dll" codec

Steps
-----------------------
- Load up BBC6Live using Alien Stream (I tried it with a number of BBC
streams at different times of day, all with the same result. Air
America's WMF stream played without a problem).
- Buffer fills to about 50%
- Buffer slowly goes down to 0% resulting in no sound.
- After 5 seconds sound starts playing again with buffer filled to ~75%
- Buffer slowly goes to 0% and results in hiccup of sound again.
- Repeats
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