danco wrote: > I am using a Squeezebox 2 with wired (Powerline) connection. The > settings are (the default, I think) AAC > FlashAAC > FlashMP3 > WMA. With SB2 - then there will be transcoding most of thge time as AAC will be used. This means your LMS will be sending Flac to SB2 which might cause rebuffering if using Wifi or if server was a NAS. If outside the UK, if rebuffering is a big problem you could change to using WMA as there will be little difference in quality.
> I was wondering whether programs that showed in Extras but not in > iPlayer were sent out by the BBC in a different format. Certainly I get > the rebuffering problem often when I use Extras and rarely in iPlayer. Extras does not do any playing - it just gets a program id which points to a list of available formats for a program. The programs are the exact same as for iPlayer and it is iPlayer setting which determines which format to choose and play. IPlayer uses the offical BBC XML of program data - Extras uses RSS feeds (now undocumented as if BBC wants to retire them) for many of the menus and some other "unofficial" feeds (e.g. for Archives, Daily schedule) which seem to be more up to date that the XML feed. It looks like the XML feeds is run at fixed time and create the XML a couple of times a day from the iPlaye database whereas the feeds the EXtras uses seems to be a "live" connection to the database that underpins the BBC iPlayer web pages. Often a program does not appear on the XML feed but can appears on Extras menus - if these are the programs you having rebuffering then it could be a BBC issue as it may mean some formats although listed are not yet available and the iPlayer plugin will try all formats until it find one that plays and likely many other BBC users are doing the same and loading a particular server. However, more analysis is needed to correlate rebuffering and program before a firm opinion could be given. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
