On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 01:21 -0400, MVallevand wrote: > On 8/15/06, Roland Turner (mvpmc-users) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I am trying to is shuffle play a playlist of ~3000 items (all > > That is a rather large playlist. The first thing I'd do is try a > folder or playlist with 10 entries.
Shorter playlists work fine. Is it [intended to be] possible to leave the device playing indefinitely from a NAS (i.e. without a streaming server of any sort, just CIFS/NFS)? BTW, your comment appears to suggest that it's possible to play "a folder". As far as I can tell, you can only play an individual track or a playlist. Have I missed something? > > audio; mostly ogg, some mp3; TV output is not actually a requirement) as > > Ogg does require slightly higher overhead because the tremor code has > to convert it to mp3. Ah. Unfortunate. > My suggestion is to try one of the test > internet radio stations in /usr/playlist/default.m3u. KSCR or Radio > XY are working, I just checked. If you can't stream these mp3 then it Radio XY sounds fine. > is either something with the H3 or your network. I've got one of the > slowests NAS's (Linksys NSLU2 fully loaded with extra apps) and a > really slow HomePlug network too which is only 2Mb at my stereo, and > streaming mp3 at 320 kbs is not a problem. I hope to have an H3 soon > and I will be able to answer better then Streaming is generally fine, in short bursts, but it appears to have trouble with sustained (hours, days) playback from CIFS/NFS. > > - When using http (Apache 2.0), the sound is very choppy. Peering at the > > wire traffic is un-nerving; there's an awful lot of ZeroWindow, which is > > a pretty blunt way of performing flow control for TCP; there are better > > approaches... > > When streaming http mp3 you can hold the pause down to increase the > playback buffer for slower networks. With ogg there really is no > buffer which would definitely be a problem on a poor network. OK, but with a clear 10 or 100Mb/s between MVP and Samba, I wouldn't call mine a "poor" network. I do have a little more insight into the software's behaviour though; while watching network traffic shortly after starting to play a playlist (i.e. while playing the first couple of tracks) I noticed that it's opening every file in the playlist in turn as fast as it can, presumably to get metadata to display in place of filenames. Can this be turned off? - Raz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
