OK; so I've been unable to listen to live Radio 4 now for several weeks due to excessive re-buffering.
I have a low bandwidth Internet connection here in the sticks, so when the problem started I went to the iPlayer Settings and made sure that 'Prefer WMA Streams' was checked as I assumed (wrongly as it turns out) that on lower bandwidth systems this is what I was supposed to do. Then I deselected 'Use AAC Streams' as it says "Deselect if you have difficulty playing streams". It didn't help - I gave up listening to radio on my Squeezeboxes to much disappointment. Then I got an iPhone and found that I could happily listen to Radio 4 live using a little iPhone App (FStream) over my WLAN. So I knew it wasn't a bandwidth or WLAN limitation; and went back to the iPlayer settings and - just for fun - deselected 'Prefer WMA Streams). Now BBC Radio 4 Live works perfectly over AAC without any buffering - which I thought imposed a greater load on the bandwidth! Weird. This was after an auto-plugin update today - was that to iPlayer v0.9j? Weirder - I just looked at FStream on the iPhone - and it streams WMA files! Quite happily, no buffering. What has been going on?! -- Regards Neil Neil Cameron Consulting 07973 165130 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
