and that is the real trick to deciding the size of buffering streams. Do you provide the user with a nice realtime response and start playing as soon as you have the first couple of frames? In practice, that ends up being awful: a slight network delay will make the stream stop/start painfully.
Or do you have a nice fat buffer immune to all but the most severe outages? But who wants to wait 10 minutes to actually hear the station they clicked on? Perhaps a player-setting could be added to allow people to tweak it from the default so in cases of network problems they can be more patient at the start to avoid cutout problems. The Squeezebox should have plenty of RAM for more buffering than people could possibly want. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29287 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
