Part of your problems sounds like a problem with the stream from the BBC since it affects the live stream much more than Listen Again. You could test this by using mplayer direct in your PC to the same source.
By their very nature, the live streams cannot buffer data in case of network errors, instead they drop packets when packets cannot be sent out in time (e.g. network congestion). To the listener when a few packets are lost, this will sound sometimes as repeated fragments, sometimes as short gaps of silence. AlienBBC uses mplayer and it stores a buffer of data when the streams is started but if there are many network problems then this buffer gets depleted and then the stream will stop. However it will still try to keep going so you will get very short fragments of sounds amongst mainly silence. The problem can be worse for some listeners as the banks of servers seems to be assigned to areas and one server bank/network connection may be more heavily loaded than others. The problem also tends to be worse at peak times - that varies by station but typically for R4 it is Mon-Fri 7.30-9.30 and 5.00-10.00. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28257 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
