tandy1000rl wrote: > Anyone else noticing many of these icy_XXXX shoutcast streams now > stutter when played natively on Radio or Touch hardware? Problem goes > away when streams are transcoded to FLAC, MP3, or PCM in File Types > section of LMS (so I know it's not my network). Transcoding doesn't prove it's not your network. It just show the stream could be "lumpy". Does the problem go away if you enable "proxied" playing for Touch player using WebUI Setting/Player/Audio/Streaming Method (i.e. no transcoding but LMS acts as a larger buffer)
> Does hardware not support latest HE-AAC v2 (SBR+PS) which this stream > seems to contain? Decoder are in firmware not hardware. HE-AAC v2 was defined in 2004 and am pretty sure Touch supports it. Usually incompatibilities result in no audio and are logged. You could look at Touch log for audio decode message - rlogin and look ta /var/log/messages while playing. > For example, does this stream play without stuttering "natively" on your > Radio or Touch: http://c13icyelb.prod.playlists.ihrhls.com/1765_icy > > It seems like it tries to decode but doesn't have the internal > processing power to keep up, because the stuttering gets worse when > doing other things on the Radio simultaneously (ie. navigating menus, > etc.) Default is for stream to be played direct (i.e. audio goes direct from router to Touch - not via LMS) but this means Touch buffer needs to be topped up frequently to ensure smooth playing. If source station is slow to respond to "top up" requests or there is a block somewhere between station & player and then Touch may run out of audio. Usual LMS remedies for these "lumpy" stream are (i) increase Radio Station Buffer setting in WebUI Setting/Advanced/Network (default 3 secs maybe too small) and (ii) enable "Proxied streaming" for player ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108466 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
