The Bandwidth option is purely an Mplayer option (and in this context only RealAUdio) nothing to do with Slimserver. It implements what is known as RealPlayer's TurboPlay.
This feature means that for non-live stream, data is sent as fast as possible to the player to enable playing to start as soon as possible. Typically with BBC Listen Again about 2 secs instead of 15 secs without the Bandwidth option. Without this option skip forward/backward where take 15 secs before play starts making the feature barely acceptable. Before your post, there have been only about 3 users (2 XP and one FC5) who have reported this issue. I'm sure there were a number of others who have used the fix but it is a very small number compared to the number of downloads of AlienBBC. Overall most users do not have a problem and enjoy the benefit, so I think it is right to use the option by default. I'm not sure what you mean when you say that Bandwidth not in pre8 is "telling" - it is a newish RealPlayer feature which was simply not implemented in Mplayer before Jan 2006 - no other reason. I believe the implementation of the feature in Mplayer is not quite right and so a few users experience this problem - the only way for it to get fixed would probably for me to debug it and volunteer a patch- but it is not urgent and like Mplayer's inability to play the R4 LW stream (which annoys cricket fans). You also comment that your mplayer build is not pre8 - if your build of Mplayer is before jan 2006 then your problem is not related to the Bandwidth option. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26913 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
