jeas wrote:
I use slimserver to listen to my music collection by streaming it over
the net. As I'm connecting to the server from different IP's (mostly
dialup accounts), I have to change the default 320kBit bitrate limit
nearly every time I connect to the server. Moreover I always run into
slightly bandwidth trouble, because at first I have to start the player
to configure the limit on the server. But when the server is started it
streams full 320 kBit of pure silence to the player, until I limit the
bitrate or play a mp3 with a lower bitrate. As this stream of silence
exceeds the upload bandwidth of my ADSL, the slimserver http interface
gets very slow and it needs nearly a minute to reach the bitrate limit
configuration page. I hope, you understand the problem. :-)
Is there a way to change the default bitrate limit for unknown players?
I understand, that I could "hard code" a lower limit in the convert.conf
file for every file type, but then the bandwidth limit setting on the
http interface becomes useless and I always have to change
convert.conf, if I want to change the limit.
I would prefer a solution, where I can set a lower default bitrate for
new players, which can be changed from the player settings anyhow. Is
this possible?
If you are using a player such as winamp, media player or itunes to
conenct to http://serverip:9000/stream.mp3 try usingl:
http://serverip:9000/stream.mp3?bitrate=128
or replace 128 with which ever bitrate you want to use.
However you will still have the same problem that silence is encoded at
320kbps )-: But atleast you wont have to battle to the bitrate page!
The other option is to use softsqueeze. I think if you keep on using the
same copy of softsqueeze (i.e. from the same comptuer but different IP
addresses) it should still remember the settings for the player.
HTH
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