newton Wrote: > I just got a used SB1 awhile ago and was thinking of using my Mac Mini > to run the SlimServer, but started out running it on a Windows machine. > The SB1 is connected by wire to the server through a switch. > > I haven't had any problems with the SB1. Have you tried serving some > files residing on the Mac Mini instead of the file server? That would > at least eliminate a problem from Mac Mini to SB1. My guess is that > part works correctly (though I get the impression that the Mac version > of SlimServer is not as solid as the Windows version for some reason). > > I suspect that the problem is how the data is being requested from the > file server, but I don't know enough about SlimServer yet to know how > it opens the files, and whether it is something in SlimServer or lower > in the Mac (OS X) plumbing. I'm sure someone around here knows the > SlimServer part.
I'm pretty sure that it has to do with the file size that I'm streaming; I'm streaming Apple Lossless files (about 10MB / minute of audio). I ran the Network Health thing this morning and the buffer fullness was consistently reporting as "Low". Here's the setup: http://danforthsource.com/pics/sb_net.bmp When I examine the Mac Mini's network activity, the data RX during playback will hover around 140KB/s or so and then drops down to 5KB/s for no apparent reason (somewhere in step 3). Again, when I stream a file from the server into iTunes on the Mac Mini directly, I have NO problems at all with the input stream. So, I do have a network-related PUSH problem getting data into the SB1 buffer, right? The SB1 is *not* the problem? The processor on the Mac Mini is never pegged out so I don't think that I'm having any trouble with processing overhead in transcoding the files for rebroadcast. Can someone from Slim please comment? -- hualon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ hualon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2786 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19087 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
