OK Romain, here is what's happening.....
# the buffer likes to hover around 80k, and slowly starts to 0 over
thousands of log lines, then rapidly jumps back up to 80k
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Brandon Casci <[email protected]>wrote:
> the version options says.....
>
> Liquidsoap 1.0.0-beta+svn (trunk/liquidsoap@rev8064).
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Brandon Casci <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Nearly all of the ones with problems use MP3. Also a few of them seem to
>> have the problem around song changes, so their encoder might not send data
>> for a short time, which probably means the input harbor thinks
>> disconnected...the buffer probably runs out before the audio track is sent.
>> Just a guess though.
>>
>> OK, I will go in there and start logging away :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Romain Beauxis <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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