Since I started listening to the BBC HLS live streams, I frequently get halting and re-buffering and I have to resort to the lousy MP3 streams to maintain continuity. I mainly listen to BBC Radio 3 and 4 and the problems are particularly acute in the early to mid mornings. My server is a quad-core Raspberry Pi 2 and my broadband 152 mbps, so unlikely to be on the critical path. I first observed this phenomenon with the modified Triode iPlayer and PayHLS option and now with the new Triode Alpha iPlayer.
I have often wondered if this is a DNS related problem, but haven't clue how to check this. Because the BBC has kept hitting us with so much crap of late, it's getting increasingly difficult to know where problems like this arise - the BBC or my network or what? We've been so delighted to be able to listen to anything again that perhaps we haven't given enough attention to the reliability of what they're feeding us! "slartibartfast" on the BBC blog has apparently not noticed this stuttering phenomenon with Radio 2 using an Odroid U3 server but I have no experience of this station with which to compare. Have any folk here experienced these problems with the live HLS streams and, if so, which channels and do they follow any discernible pattern? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ChipMonk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40072 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
