hi slwiser! interesting issue you are describing here. i have two SB3s and they also both suffer from random stops while playing. i am curious if we have similar problems and maybe we can find commonalities?
first, a description of my setup: -> WLAN g -> slimserver 6.5.5 (waiting for SC7 release) -> PIII, 700MHz, 1GB RAM -> virusscanner active (not norton) -> both SBs have at least 60% sig. strength -> network/bandwidth test checks out to max with no problems -> all other wlan devices (2 laptops, 1 PDA, 1 DVD player via e-net/wlan bridge) work with no problems whatsoever -> around 9.000 tracks in library my symptoms: -> SB3 will simply stop playing for no apparent reason. no specific track/audioformat/track sequence seems to be reproduceable. the only thing which is reproduceable, is that is occurs WAY more often when the SBs are synched. altho it does happen when not synched, too. -> the other day, i *finally* got an error message (of sorts): "out of decoder RAM" (or was it memory?). the message was strangely garbled on the display as if there were pixel-errors. i think this is the first time i actually saw the message, because i happened to be watching the SB when it happened. -> after that, SB will react to the remote, but it will not produce sound. (seems like the DSP/DAC crashed, but the rest is still ok) only unplugging the unit will reset it. -> it only seems to happen when i play mixed audio formats, in my case: vorbis + mp3. -> when the crash occurs, the SBs display is not showing what is being played - it is one or two tracks ahead (!?) of the the track that was being played. as if slimservr and SB have lost synch at some point... -> when synched, the stops will occur between every 5 minutes (track to track) or sometimes play for hours before crashing. when unsynched, it usually takes some hours to happen. almost as if two synched players cause it to happen double as often as one! what i have tried so far (with no results to speak of): -> re-played the same playlist again, to see if SB will crash on the same track. -> used huge playlists (~700 tracks) vs. small ones (~30 tracks). as a matter of fact, the small playlists will play once or even twice, only to crash the player on the third time round. -> stopped just about all the other software running on my server -> exempted slimserver from my virusscanner. -> fixed IP my suspicion: -> i have seen that error message before (out of decoder RAM), in context with the vorbis decoder crashing on certain internet radio stations: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4418 since i use vorbis a *lot*, this seems related. @slwiser (or anyone else ;-): how much of this sounds familiar to you? -- dcote ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcote's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43298 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
