bpa;521731 Wrote: 
> Do you mean "Lyric" ? 

Yes - "Cyril" is, I believe, what non-Lyric RTE people refer to it as.

bpa;521731 Wrote: 
>  I have studied this problem and found the reason to be TCP acknowledged
> window size and the mplayer's implementation of RealAudio's Turboplay. 
> 
> Understanding the problem is now just academic as mplayer
> implementation is not going to change and use of RealAudio is fading
> away.  For live radio - use the WMA streams.
> 
> RTE is a pain to deal with as they change URLs in a seemingly illogical
> fashion, with no pattern, the URLs are not uniform and their handcrafted
> "smil" files break RealAudio rules (Listen Back programs are described
> as video not audio streams) and need a special parser.  It looks like
> RTE are moving away from RealAudio as 2FM is now using Flash Audio and
> RTE have indicated that Radio 1 will be moving to Flash soon.  So it
> looks like soon RTE Listen Back will no longer be available to SB users.

I see - that's a pity - well it was nice while it lasted.

Thanks for your help anyway.


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