wei wrote:
It so happens I am setting up SoftSqueeze today as well. I am running
openSSH and SlimServer 6.2.1 on Ubuntu Linux 5.10 (compiled from
source) at home, where the uplink is about 700Kbps.
Then I set up a ssh tunnel using SSH Secure Shell to the slimserver on
the PC at work, and open the stream http://localhost:9000/stream.mp3 in
iTune. It plays beautifully for hours. The only downside is that I
have to launch three applications on the PC in order to get the audio:
ssh client, web browser (for remote control), and iTune.
So I installed Softsequeeze 2.2 to consolidate three applications to
one. I first configured the built-in SSH client in SoftSqueeze.
Everything connects fine but the sound started cut and out after a few
seconds. At first, I thought it might have to do with the audio buffer
size, so I increased it to 4096000 instead of the default 128000. But
it does not have any noticable improvement.
Then I turned off the built-in SSH client and started a separate SSH
client with tunneling, as suggested by some posts in the forum. The
choppy sound problem still persists.
I don't think it's a network bandwidth problem, because I can stream
the audio via SSH tunneling in iTune just fine. What could go wrong
with the SoftSqueeze setup then?
What music format are you trying to stream?
Using localhost:9000/stream.mp3 converts everything to a 320kbps
If you are streaming flac (which is what you would be doing if you are
sending anything other than an mp3 file to softsqueeze/SB2) the
bandwidth required is 3x that (~900kbps)
The way around it is to use the web interface --> player settings -->
audio --> bitrate limiting --> set to 320 (or lower if needed).
The other thing is that sending the players user interface (i.e. the
scrolling menus etc) takes bandwidth so you may want to reduce the
quality of this. player settings --> display --> scroll rate and scroll
pixels. I have mine set to 0.03, 0.03, 2 and 2 for my local LAN (makes
for much better display of scrolling than the defaults) however this
uses a lot of bandwidth. I do not know what the default settings are at
present as there was talk about increasing the quality of the defaul. (I
do not know how applicable these settings are for softsqueeze/SB2).
HTH
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