garym wrote: 
> Finally had one of these rebuffering episodes (not synched, direct
> playback to player, etc.).  Was fine for several hours through 17:11
> time.  Then at 19:18 time (excerpt below), it stopped and then
> rebuffered before starting back playing. Note the "playerOutputUnderrun"
> message when this started. (full log at end of message).

Outputunderrun is when there is no data left to be output - this trigger
rebuffering.
Interesting the rebuffering threshold is 80000 - I thought it would be
higher but it took a long time for even 
When rebuffering occurs, the stream has stalled  (i.e. 4 secs to go from
150 to 3069, 20 secs when data received is still only 3069)  - it is not
being filled up and in the end LMS gives up after a timeout.

This means the "buffering" issues is not in LMS, but in the network -
somewhere - local LAN, modem, ISP, CDN, station and so it may not be
fixable.
Using LMS to play the station and using LMS measure/settings turned off
(e.g. proxied streaming) can only mitigate the problem - reduce the
impact on listening but cannot eliminate it.

Since you can do nothing about ISP, CDN or station - all you can do is
to investigate to see if it is an issue with your network.  
You should spend a little bit of time investigating the issue to check
is there something obvious.

The problem can be in the network hardware or the use of the network. 
Check common equipment (e.g. dodgy power barrel connection on switch
which gets occasionally knocked by cat). 
A problem with an audio stream is obvious (gap in audio) whereas same
problem would not be noticeable on a webpage display or a file transfer


If the issue is network usage - then is it caused by 
- a whole network event (e.g. network storms, big traffic
upload/download, DHCP leases expiring)
- isolated issues such as the loss of a single TCP ACK packet.


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