Just to kick a few more ideas around: I have been monitoring a particularly troublesome stream, which started stuttering after I loaded 6.5.1 and Softsqueeze 3.x.x. Now running SS 3.2.1 but effect is the same. (Timing could be coincidence tho')
The stream runs at 192Kb/s - Love Channel on 65.19.173.132:4064 - if snyone wants to try it. The good thing is that SB3 plays this stream OK and maintains a buffer level of 3% or so consistently. I am unable to monitor the actual network throughput as SB3 connects directly to the stream. Softsqueeze however will run for a while then start to stutter, the buffer level records 0% from start. Pausing playback will replenish the buffer and when play restarted, the buffer starts to reduce until stuttering begins at 0%. Significantly, the same stream stutters on Winamp with buffer empty messages being displayed. I am able to monitor network throughput on my PC, and this is showing the stream average throughput is less than 192K ergo, the buffer will eventually empty. The conclusion is that SB3 is very much better at dealing with this stream in direct mode than my PC network card. My PC has no problem handling video streaming at much higher rates (I have an 8Mb/s ADSL) - so.... A point to note is that streams which are able to maintain healthy buffer levels transmit at much higher burst rates at startup, and when buffer replenishment needed. Love Channel is limited to a max of about 200K - not much headspace if there are network issues - this could of course be true for many more radio streams. I get the same effects if I connect through SN. Monitoring this stream on SB3 and Softsq at the same time, and SB3 is OK and SoftSq stutters. Whether these observations throw any light on the problems experienced by others is debatable, but I would be interested if anyone else was able to duplicate these observations. These tests were done on the WinXP setup. Netgear DG834G Router. Network monitoring using Ming Bandwidth Monitor and Utilkit DLUL Meter -- Ramage P2 266MHz,Linux CC 3.2, SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 - 10145, Alien 1.06 P4 2.6GHz, Win XP, Slimserver Version: 6.5.1 - 10147, Alien 1.06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ramage's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5343 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28392 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
