> 
> which I think is when the new 'improved' approach to Alien BBC was
> introduced) 
> 
The basic mechanism which AlienBBC uses hasn't changed - a few
supporting routine were added which were required by SC 7.3 - without
them AlienBBC would not be compatible.

There are a number of issues.

1. Garbled - this is invariably BBC network streams and is caused by
lost packet on network - gaps in audio and garbled audio are signature
symptoms of RealAudio problems when packets are lost.   Can also be
associated with buffering as packet loss will result in empty internal
buffers.  You can go onto BBC message boards and find many reports of
this complaint with RealAudio streams in general. 

2. Buffering - this symptom has been more prevalent in general with
early versions of 7.3 as for 7.3 there was a rewrite of the streaming
code which improved synchronised playing. There have been a number of
fixes to code and I would advise running latest (7.3.3 nightly) to see
if there is an improvement.

As a test to see if possible source of proble is between server and
player  - you could disable AlienBBC using Flac between server and
player and use MP3 instead (i.e. WebUI Settings/Filetypes disable
RTSP->Flac and RTSP->Wav and make sure you have lame installed).  This
uses less bandwdith and also enables more audio time to be buffered.


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