bpa wrote: > > Play the stream in VLC GUI and look at message windows set to level 2 - > VLC sepnds loads of time just trying to figure out how these stream > should be played as they are not what HLS was intended. ffplay is not > transcoding MP3 into flac nor fixing mono/stereo bug (after having to > decode from flac and then sending through sox) so it is missing some CPU > processing there. HLS was intended to plays 5-10 sec chunks of HD video > - these broadcaster are doing 5-10 secs chunks of mono MP3 (each chunk > requires about 3 HTTP request with playlists) - there must be more time > spent processing headers and playlists than actual audio. The amount of > data in mono audio compared to HD video is tiny.
I ended up downloading ffmpeg static from http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ I tried it and I was so surprised that it supports conversion of all sorts of formats including m3u8 and rtsp.. with a CPU load of 1-3%... So I fiddled around with it and sure enough I was able to get this config file to play well, for all the streams I have. So now I am back to a single Xplay running everything with 2% CPU load! Here is the file, hope you find it interesting. and thanks again for your guidance. Code: -------------------- xplay wav * * # F:{PATH=%f}R:{PATH=%F} [ffmpeg] -loglevel quiet -i $PATH$ -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 128k -f s16le -acodec pcm_s16le - xplay mp3 * * # F:{PATH=%f}R:{PATH=%F}B:{BITRATE=-B %B} [ffmpeg] -loglevel quiet -i $PATH$ -vn -ar 44100 -ac 2 -ab 128k -f mp3 -acodec mp3 - -------------------- You can certainly add a flac section by swapping mp3 with flac. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mitrih's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7800 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97542 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
