I provided the initial fix for Mplayer but I am not one of the Mplayer "team". I wrote the fix so that I could listen to the BBC. Neil has helped to test and bring it to a wider audience.
I am aware that some people are still hearing garbled audio. I want to fix this problem but to do that I need hard information as I have not been able to recreate the problem myself despite having been listening to the BBC for hours at a time over the last few days. The garbled audio is caused by the BBC Real server dropping packets in an undocumented way. Since packets are lost there will be gaps in sound which will sound like clicks or garbled. This is not Mplayer's fault. Lost packets come in bursts and it seems to be worst at peak times but normally the data stream recovers, however at worst it may take 1-2 minutes before audio recovers if there were a lot of packets dropped. There is a error with the current patch which means there is garbled audio during an error burst but after the errors pass the stream becomes normal. To find and fix the remaining problem would anybody who still has the garbled audio problem please supply the following as I am at a loss on the cause: 1. What is your systems e.g. XP, W2k, Linux, Debian 2. What specific station (e.g. R4FM, R4LW) and the time of day the problem occurred. 3. How long was the station on for ? 4. Was there any other heavy/bursty "processing" on your server or network ? 5. How long did you wait hoping for the garbled audio to clear ? I'm very interested in more details from those users who seems to have this problem occur within minutes as this may provide a clue in recreating the problem. If you want to get an indication of the packet loss, run Mplayer in a Dos prompt or shell window and use the verbose flag as follows: mplayer -verbose 1 -vo null -cache 128 -af volume=4:sc,resample=44100:0:1 -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/realplayer/media/fmg2.rpm I run Suse 9.3 and Windows XP but most testing is under Suse, and so I can provide limited help to those building/testing under Linux flavours. Bryan -- bpa _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
