florca wrote: > I've come to the conclusion that the DASH streams are VERY sensitive to > any tiny network variation or interruption. I've just spent roughly a > month trying to figure out a problem whereby all of the Squeezeboxes in > the house (Ethernet and WiFi SB3s, WiFi Boom, Ethernet Joggler) would > work perfectly on iPlayer DASH apart from a Radio, which despite showing > a 100% WiFi signal strength on the Settings>Info page would re-buffer > continuously in exactly the way you describe. I'm on PlusNet FTTC at a > rock-solid 36Mbps with a consistent (although not static) external IP > address. Updated the Plugin to 1.4.9, tried loads of other things > (Upgrade / Downgrade of various bits of firmware / software along the > chain) but eventually nailed it to some sort of mutual incompatibility > between the Unifi WiFi AP I'd bought (which works wonderfully with every > other device and Squeezebox in the house) and the Radio. Now, with a > different (old TP-Link) AP installed in the loft directly above the > Radio, on an SSID dedicated to the Radio (and again showing 100% WiFi > signal strength), it works fine. The bizarre thing is that ONLY the > iPlayer DASH streams on the Radio were affected - everything else (FLAC > / MP3 stuff on the Library, Paradise Radio, other Internet Radio > streams) would play just fine on all devices. > > So... I'm not sure there's any single answer to these problems, but > looking through various posts on this thread it seems that any one of a > number of tiny variations can cause rebuffering on the DASH streams more > easily than other content. And if anyone else is getting strange > behaviour with Unifi APs with an SB Radio, then try a different AP (or > Ethernet) to eliminate that as an issue!
I think you have mulitple issues - DASH is oner of them and miay be it is exacerbating other ones. DASH generates a AAC stream from LMS to the players. If you have rebuffering it is because either DASH plugin canno0t get data from BBC or you have problems playing an AAC stream. To separate DASH problem from AAC playing issues (the stream you show as OK are MP3) -you should test with an ordinary AAC stream. I usually use a SOMAFM one such as http://www.somafm.com/illstreet32.pls for 32kb/s or http://www.somafm.com/illstreet.pls for 128kbps. When playing AAC stream to SB3 they will ber transcoded to Flac to source speed is irrelevant as transcoded stream will be Flac. If you players are sycned then test with Sync. If playing just to Radio (no sytnc) then AAC will not be transcoded. If these stream play OK - then the issue is not on the LAN, Wifi (unless server is wifi connected) or the players. If there are not problem with AAC using a SOMAfm stream - then I suggest try playing HLS instread of DASH and see do you get better results. Also check if there is a difference between Listen Again vs Live as you don't indicate if this is an issue in DASH. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104672 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
