2011/4/25 Brandon Casci <[email protected]>:
> Right now we have a trunk version in place. I'm not sure of the version. I
> will check, it's from withing the last 3 months though.
Ok. Also, what input format are you clients using? ogg/vorbis? mp3?
> I was not aware of logging specific to the input harbor. Can please you
> point me to the docs?
Well, just add:
logfile="/tmp/buffer.log"
to the arguments of input.harbor, and send me/us the file after you
have observed some disconnections..
> The logs currently don't show network activity, just switching between
> sources. Do we need to increase the log level, or would this data show up
> in the input harbor log?
Yes possibly. You could use
set("log.level",5)
to see more details..
Romain
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Romain Beauxis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> 2011/4/25 Romain Beauxis <[email protected]>:
>> > Le 25 avril 2011 15:02, Brandon Casci <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> >> Hello
>> >
>> > Hi Brandon,
>> >
>> >> I have a considerable amount of broadcasters that have issues with
>> >> streaming
>> >> to an input harbor. Their broadcast frequently switches between a local
>> >> source and the input harbor. After a lot of research a few of them do
>> >> have
>> >> crappy home networks, and bandwidth issues, which explains some of the
>> >> problems. The others seem to have no bandwidth issues, but I am
>> >> wondering if
>> >> Liquidsoap is input harbor more sensitive to network latency than
>> >> Icecast
>> >> and Shoutcast. So maybe Liquidsoap has a smaller buffer, and is prone
>> >> to
>> >> thinking the live broadcast has been disconnected much earlier than
>> >> Shoutcast or Icecast might. Is that a reasonable theory? For now I'm
>> >> going
>> >> to test it by having some live stream directly to an Icecast server
>> >> and see
>> >> if their problems go away.
>> >
>> > What version of liquidsoap are you using?
>>
>> The reason I am asking this is because I also suspect something in the
>> recent versions of liquidsoap.
>> One thing you can do to monitor the issue is to use the logfile
>> parameter of input.harbor. This creates a file which contains the
>> length of the input buffer over time which can be plotted, in order to
>> get an idea of what's going on..
>>
>> Also, you should check the logs for messages of the type:
>> "No network activity for 1 second(s)."
>> If those messages happen a lot and the graph of the input buffer goes
>> to zero, then the problem is on the networking side..
>>
>> > Romain
>> >
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