JJP wrote: > I think most of the answers to your Q's (and logs) are in 'my post last > week' > (https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?106409-BBCiPlayer-V1-5-2-beta-test/page53&p=915437#post915437)
Looked at log. 1. Don't play HLS stream on Windows - keep as a "backup" with "DASH > HLS > MP3 > FlashAAC" - IIRC The plugin "live" URLs only have DASH and HLS now. 2. If you really want to play HLS streams on Windows install playHLS whichuses ffmpeg and create favorites - there will be no program info. 3. Low buffer threshold increase the likelihood of rebuffering - so if you get rebuffering - increase threshold to max. 4. The " Slim::Utils::OS::Win32::getPriorityClass" error is a LMS error due to changing server priority - IIRC it doesn't work at the moment. and really wouldn't have made a difference unless you are on a low power single core single thread system. 5. Assuming you have a good network link, in the UK and with a high powered LMS server - I think "use highest bitrate DASH stream available" option may result less rebuffering due to nature of Windows specific issue. Only relevant to DASH streams. I am not sure but I think in Win8 or Win10 MS made a change which affect LMS transcoding support program socketwrapper.exe. It is most noticeable on high end multicore system with lots of RAM - it is possible the syste is too fast for the application which was initially written for a single core prcoessor and now with multi core system there is a "race hazard" somewhere in the code . The plugin's HLS implementation uses HTTP 1.0 so each 6sec chunk request requires a separate TCP connection each with a DNS lookup - this generates a lot of network traffic which is constant while playing stream (i.e not a burst) . This seems to cause problems on Windows systems possibly due to interaction with Windows caching. PlayHLS using ffmpeg and the plugin's DASH implementation both use HTTP 1.1 which means one TCP connection and then multiple chunks sent on same connection. I do not have Win8 or Win10 system so I cannot verify my theory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106409 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
