I'm using get_iplayer for live streaming of radio and I've found that this works better for me with flvstreamer than it does with rtmpdump.
The difference is that rtmpdump has a hard-wired 64k buffer and it always fills this buffer completely before writing it to stdout. For a 96kbps stream, the buffer contains over 5 seconds of audio, so the player is always at least 5 seconds behind the stream. This also means that there's a gap of 5 seconds until rtmpdump writes the next batch of audio, which causes me some problems with ensuring a smooth downstream flow of audio with no dropouts. With flvstreamer, the data is transmitted in 4k chunks which works much better with a smaller delay and a smoother flow of audio down the chain. I've seen a few comments here about problems with using flvstreamer instead of rtmpdump, though I haven't noticed any problems myself. Specifically, I haven't seen flvstreamer restarting the stream because of its lack of swfVfy support. I've tried running for an hour or so with --verbose as I thought this might produce a message when the restart occurs. How would I know whether these restarts are happening? Simon _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
