Many thanks for your replies! pablolie;346426 Wrote: > what is the system spec for your Ubuntu system? i know that Ubuntu runs > on lower spec machines, but i think it tends to run slow on those, so i > would not trust its ability to stream flacs, especially with multiple > SBs in the house, on a lower spec machine. > > i run it on ubuntu 8.04 with 2gb of ram and an intel e8400, and there > are no issues when it comes to playing music. > > there are plenty of dhcp and wirless related issues on the Duet, though > - none of which occur on my SB3s and Booms. I'm at work now, but off the top of my head: 1GB Kingston RAM and 2.4GHz P4 CPU. The Duet is my only SB system. I have noticed Ubuntu running a little slow when trying to run several applications (e.g. watching a video and running Firefox can cause choppy video playback and is slow to switch between apps), but assumed it would be OK for streaming flac with no other apps running. Like I say, I was running an identical spec WinXP machine with no problems.
radish;346436 Wrote: > 40KB/s is too low for FLAC, I'd expect more than double that if it's > actually playing - which would account for why the music keeps > stopping! The question is why the bandwidth is so low - is the server > unable to stream any faster, or is the network constrained? Can you run > the network test from SC's Help menu? You need to be able to get a solid > result for at least 1mbps to be safe for FLAC playback. I hadn't bothered to do the math, but was suspicious that streaming mp3 and flac resulted in the same data rate! I'll try the network test when I get home but I suspect that it is a server issue as, like I said previously, my XP system was fine. What exactly does the network test do? I can't find any information about it on the Wiki or in the Duet manual. I'd really like to get this working, if for no other reason than not having to go back to XP! -- shadesbass ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shadesbass's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18859 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53152 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
