majones;594429 Wrote: > My Squeezebox Radios, that have in-built AAC processing (and hence don't > use SBS to convert AAC), have similar symptoms, worse actually because > from time to time the radios will freeze and reboot. I have switched > everything over to WMA and certainly the interruptions, rebuffering and > reboots are much less common. It's to early to say whether the symptoms > are fully resolved. > > Is there something possibly within the BBC's Flash/AAC set-up that is > incompatible with the SBS and Radio processing capabilities? I read > somewhere that the BBC introduced SWF Verification for its RTMP streams > in February, whose purpose is to interrupt non-compliant streams. Any > thoughts on this?
Answering related to use of BBCiPlayer/BBCRadio plugins: 1) If you do get rebuffering with aac/flash streams then you should try moving to wma. The reason for this is that with aac/flash the player/server only maintains a very short buffer and so will rebuffer with relatively short breaks in internet connectivity or congestion at the radio station end. With wma, if the buffer threshold is set for longer then you should get a much deeper buffer which can absorb more network variability. 2) There was a bug in my rtmp code which could cause reboots especially on radio - I think this should be fixed in the latest radio firmware. If you see reboots please change to wma. Please note that the plugins and rtmp implemention are a 3rd party additions which I try to maintain to provide the best BBC capability on squeeze devices. The rtmp case uses an implementation which was written from scratch using the adobe spec rather than the closed flash implementation available as a browser plugin means there will be differences. This is especially true related to undocumented features such as buffer management. In most cases I think people find the rtmp stream works well, but if you experience problems please try the wma ones. Answering your last point - no there is no rtmp verification on the audio streams. The plugins are able to receive all bbc radio streams at present. -- Triode ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82526 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
