You are exactly right! My music files are all stored in WAV format, 16-bit PCM 44.1KHz. So it would consume a little bit less 1.5Mbps bandwidth. I did not know that when streaming through iTune, slimserver does MP3 real-time encoding with 320K as the defalut bitrate, which explains why iTune plays the stream without any problem.
Once I scaled the bitrate to 320K in the player setting, everything works perfect now. I even changed the audio buffer back to the default 128000 without incurring any problem. I left the control user interface settings (scroll rate, etc) alone. HTH, thank you so much! You made my day! ---Wei gorstk Wrote: > > 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 -- wei ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wei's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2414 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18716 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
