bpa;171122 Wrote: > Could you provide a little more details on your configuration and the > problem so that the problem and cure can be characterised and hopefully > explained. > > What do you mean by droppouts - typically AlienBBC problems are either > one of below depending on the source of the problem. > - short burst of silence but streams continues > or > - longer gaps of silence, followed by stuttering and stream restarts > Were you sending the BBC streams in Flac to the SB ? > If Flac, did you get dropouts when streaming Flac files to SB ? > Is the SB wired or wireless ? > What version of mplayer are you using ? > > What values of the PCI timing did you use ? > Assuming your PC is wired to the router - Is your Ethernet interface > onboard or a separate PCI card ? > If it is onboard what is the motherboard or PC model ?
That was a bit sparse of me, apologies. I had been getting the short burst of silence but streams continue. This was particularly noticable on BBC radio London Live via RealPlayer, but also Radio 4 live FM (via RP). I've got a SB3 wired. Hopefully the following won't lose everybody: mplayer -v = MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 4, Stepping: 1) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. So you can see this is not an underpowered system (its a dev box) I had tried everything suggested in these forums re changing from flac to mp3 etc, testing the network connection and so on. Everything else works flawlessly. After shuffling the PCI cards to get them on different IRQs and tweaking the PCI latency timings on an AMD Athlon 64 box which serves MythTV I thought I might as well have a go on the Intel box running SS. However, it has onboard sound (intel) and onboard Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express so no physical shuffling there. I simply changed the PCI latency timing in bios to 128 from the default 32. This option isn't available on all motherboards but is easily set from the cmd line in Linux (I haven't a clue what is done in the Windows world). Anyway, the end result is dropout-free Radio London & Radio 4 which is cool. -- chuckiebear -- SlimServer Version: 6.5.1 Debian Testing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chuckiebear's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5659 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31748 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
