bpa;338363 Wrote: > You need to analyse the RealAudio traffic within the TCP stream I did suggest as much to the PlusNet support technician but did not get too far. bpa;338363 Wrote: > WMA reaction to congestion is different to RealAudio and so it will > "sound" different. It sounds *better*.... well at least there are no continual drop outs. However there does seem to be some inherent low-level distortion to the sound. Not too sure if this is always the case with wma streams of this bit rate or if it is due to packet loss. bpa;338363 Wrote: > I believe BBC organise their RealServer server banks by regions and > behaviour can vary from region to region - perhaps the Nildram ADSL is > in a different region. > Are you listening with AlienBBC or RealPlayer ? There may be an mplayer > issue as IIRC RealPlayer deals with the dropped packets slightly > differently than mplayer. If you are using RealPlayer - are you using > RTSP (port 554) or HTTP (port 80) as the transport protocol? Normally we'd use the BBC real audio radio player at work (just as it comes on the BBC web site).
Interesting this today though. I am currently at work on the Nildram feed attempting to listen to Big Bang day (if the world's going to end I'd like to know about it). The BBC real audio player is entirely unlistenable. There are more drop outs than stream. However, the wma stream is absolutely fine. I guess lots of people want to know if the world's going to end. bpa;338363 Wrote: > Perhaps they feel you do not pay enough. PlusnNet built a network to > last x years coping with growth and so prices were set accordingly. > Unexpected (i.e.unplanned) higher traffic means more investment is > needed to meet service agreements - who'll pay for the new equipment. It would only take a disgruntled PlusNet technician or some clever geeza to prove that they were using bandwidth shaping though... and if it was publicised that they were restricting the BBC content they'd loose a lot of business (not to mention their reputation), so I tend to think this is unlikely. MC -- ModelCitizen On average people have fewer than two feet. http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52022 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
