It's been a few years since I played around with Windows Media streaming - it used to be WME on XP.
Have you tried turning on "Repeat" to restart stream automatically ? WME never used to transcode and transcoding WMA into MP3 is not good besides being processor intensive, it loses quality converting one lossy format into another lossy format. You should check the transport protocol and codec used by playing with VLC and looking under the Tools/Codec Information and Tools/Media Information. By default the streaming protocol used to be MS proprietary transport protocol MMS (or possibly rtsp nowadays) which is not supported by SB devices. You should enable the use of HTTP (and uncheck MMS or RTSP) as the transport protocol and that could enable you to use "native". If you had to disable "native" Windows Media - it means that a transcoding support application is handling the stream and the stopping / rebufffering is originating from this application. On Windows systems - this application (wmadec) is small and uses a Windows library for stream handling in which case there may be little that can be fixed if the stream is the source of the problems. The LMS transcoding (which will occur if "native" is disabled) will convert the stream into Flac by default so your rebuffering may be due to local network or server problems unable to stream Flac or transcoding process is overloading your server or both. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92776 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
