hi all! i love my SB3. matter of fact, i just got my 2nd one. ;-)
BUT i just discovered something rather unsettling and i would like to see if anyone out there has noticed a similar effect. i generally encode my CDs using SJeng's OggEncGTb3 tuned ogg-vorbis encoder set to q6. i find this gives vorbis tracks a lightness and airyness lacking in other encoders. however, it allows does allow bitrates to soar quite a bit on complex tracks. and now it seems i have found a track, which starves the SB3's CPU. Symptoms: 1. buffer fullness is always 100% -> no network problem. 2. play track with large spectrum analyser screensaver or now playing -> SB3 "chokes" after ~5-10 sec. of playing. displays "rebuffering 0%", display kind of flickers and playback stops/stutters. if i leave it alone long enough, it will recover after a minute or two and continue playing normally. 3. switch "now playing" to a static display without visualization -> playback commences again perfectly normally and never skips a beat. 4. turn visualization back on -> SB3 "chokes". these symptoms would indicate that displaying viz + high-bitrate vorbis chokes the SB3s CPU? the track in question is encoded @ q6, but will run at ~400-500 kbit/s for minutes on end. posting here is not practical, because the track is ~22 MB large. but i can provide it as a download or by mail if required. if anyone else has been seeing this, should we report this as a bug? or a feature request? i understand that one could argue OggEncGTb3 does not comply to ogg-vorbis reference specs, but then again i am only encoding @ q6. if CPU choking is indeed a problem, then it should even occur with the reference vorbis encoder @ q8-10, which is claimed to be supported by slimdevices, no? thanks for your thoughts! dominique -- dcote ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dcote's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38531 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
