mrw wrote: > Or perhaps not. > > What is easy to overlook is "how stressed" the Radio seems to be when > decoding aac streams. I've never looked into it in any detail, but an > indication can be obtained by setting the 'audio.decode' logging level > on the Radio to debug. You'll see a line, each second, looking like: > Code: -------------------- > > Jan 7 15:01:52 squeezeplay: INFO audio.decode - Playback.lua:447 0.2%/66.0% -------------------- > > > The first number is the proportion of the stream buffer available to > be filled, i.e. by fetching from the server. The second number is the > proportion of the output buffer occupied by decoded samples waiting to > be played out. > > When playing aac streams, particularly high bit rate streams from the > BBC (R3 aac @ 320k), that first number generally seems to stay in the > 0%->2% range. This is true both with the 'old/stock' firmware and its > 'private' aac decoder, and with the 'new' firmware. SqueezePlay will > not fetch any audio stream data from the server (either LMS or a > remote server) while the decoder is running. > > Compare this with, say, a Touch (I don't have one, so I can't, but > would be interested to see the results), or an MP3 stream. > > I hypothesize that the fact that the stream buffer is being scarcely > filled adversely influences the Radio's resilience to stream > interruption and/or temporary glitches. > > It's possible that matters might be improved by increasing the > 'decodeThreshold'. At present it seems to be set at 2,048 bytes, > meaning that the decoder will start as soon as 2,048 bytes are > available. But the stream buffer doesn't really seem have the chance > to fill. It might be worth experimenting to see if increasing it (for > aac streams) to a substantially larger number might help resilience. I > might give that a go at some point.How do I get to the messages file in the > Radio? I am pretty sure I have done this before but it was long ago. I can SSH in using putty but what next? With WinSCP I get "Remote side unexpectedly closed network connection"
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