finger;236076 Wrote: > Have you ever opened up such a device? These things always have a cpu, a > reasonable amount of ram and a few megs of flash memory for storing the > firmware. Maybe its not IA-32 but maybe it has at least a mips or an > arm cpu.. maybe its a solution on one single chip which doesn't mean > that it does not contain the essential parts to run something like an > operation system on it.
It has neither an ARM nor a MIPS processor, but that's not the real point. The real point is that your PC has a much larger buffer for packet data, and, quite possibly, an antenna with higher gain. > Also you shouldn't rate `audio-streaming' too high. Even a 120 Pentium 1 > cpu can decode a 64kbps stream easily on-the-fly -- not to mention an > additional hardware decoder which is probably built in into SB. It's not the complexity of decoding that's a problem, it's the lack of data to decode that creates most stuttering problems. If the connection is marginal enough that there are a lot of retries, it is possible that the buffer gets run to zero, and then there's nothing to decode and you have a gap in the stream. I think you're on the right track to improving the situation with the advice from the other forum members here. Sorry it's been a hassle for you so far. -=> Jim -- JimC "well, she wasn't all of that, but she sure was some of that." -- BKlaas' college buddy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JimC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9428 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39421 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
