Wigster wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> So I've been testing the new iPlayer 1.3.1a3 plugin with the updated
> faad.exe on WHS v1 and a Squeezebox 3 (LMS 7.8.1).
> 
> 1) Updating the faad has allowed me to access the Live streams (non-UK).
> There seems to be some rebufferring issues every minute or so (both
> Radio 1 and Radio 6), but the stream recovers. No errors in the log.
> faad does not seem to be excessively loading the CPU or anything like
> that.
> 
> 2) World Service does not work. This is what I get in the log then I try
> to open it: see bbc-live.log
> 
> 3) The listen again stream starts fine after some buffering delay (much
> longer than in the old setup) and seek fine too. But they always stop
> after about 5-10 minutes. There doesn't seem to be anything interesting
> in the log around the time of the failure:see bbc-la.log
> 
> I'm not around next week, but I could test something after 13/4 if
> that's helpful.

I'll try my best to help...

I assume you are outside the UK? There seem to be some slightly odd
things going on for you!

1) Did the alpha3 plugin not work with the original faad.exe? Were you
previously able to play any aac content (e.g. iTunes .m4a files)?  The
bug that was fixed in faad.exe should only occur in a very small
percentage of streams (it was only noticed on one Listen Again stream),
and all I'd expect on the Live streams is that very occasionally the
stream won't start playing, but retrying will make it go. So I don't
understand why you needed the new faad.exe, although it is nice to
confirm that it works on WHS v1. (Well problems 2) and 3) could be a
problem with faad, maybe...).

2) From the bbc-live.log, I've got little idea why the world-service
isn't playing. The HLS stream data is being fetched ok and apparently
being passed into the lms streaming/transcoding system, and nothing has
thrown an error with the stream data. But the 'consecutiveErrors'
reports mean (I think) that the stream hasn't actually ever started
playing on the player. You'll need to turn on more system logging to
find out what is happening. I know very little about the inner workings
of LMS, but earlier in this thread bpa had suggested player.source debug
logging if it is anything to do with transcoding, so I suggest trying
that for a start.

3) The bbc-la.log looks like it might be after the event. All I can see
there is that the HLS decoder is tearing through HLS chunks and passing
them into the LMS streaming system far too fast - the chunks are
normally 10 seconds each, but they are being dispatched as fast as once
every 1 second! It's like the streaming/transcoding system is just
discarding the data - it might be something similar to what is happening
in 2). Again, I can only suggest turning on additional player debug
logging in lms to try and see what is going on.


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