tiepx wrote: > I too have been suffering from occasional buffering issues that are > related to DNS. My ISP in the UK (Sky) hard codes their DNS server > addresses into their routers (which you also have to use). I am running > LMS on an Ubuntu box, with a 30 second buffer specified in LMS. If I > let this box use my router (and hence Sky's DNS servers) an HLS Radio 4 > stream using the iplayer plugin takes 20 seconds to buffer, plays for 10 > seconds then buffers again. If I point the Ubuntu box to Google's DNS > servers buffering is much faster, although I still get occasional drop > outs during playback and sometimes the streams stop playing until > restarted. I have now installed dnsmasq to cache addresses locally, > which seems to have resulted in a further reduction in drop outs. I am > in the process of testing different DNS servers to see which give the > best results.
That buffering doesn't sound like all DNS related -have you turned on logging to see what is actually happening ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 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
