Drop outs happen on live stream due to packets being dropped by the server due to network congestion (i.e worst on BBC around Mon-Thu 7.30am-9.00, 5.00pm-7.00pm and 9.30pm-11.pm) . With a live stream you cannot send a burst of packets to make up the backlog - the packets are generated in real time.
When a packet is lost it is replaced with some silence but some of the mplayer 128k buffer is also used up - after a while if many packets are lost, all the mplayer cache buffer is used and then the stream stutters. Best thing is to pause for about 15 secs and then play. This only happens with live as listen again can send burst of packets faster than realtime. I don't know the high speed catch effect. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21657 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
