Hi David,

output.dummy works.
Many thanks for your help!

BR, Peter

Am 25.02.2011 10:37, schrieb David Baelde:
> Hi Peter,
>
> This is a similar issue to the one seen in the recent thread
> "Overruns/issues with timed or random playlists and streams". It's not
> a bug, just a weird behavior.
>
> What's happening is that when your fallback relays one input.http,
> nothing consumes the other input, so its buffers overflows. The easy
> fix is to connect each http input to a dummy output (with
> fallible=true) that will consume its input. In your case, no need to
> do this for the first http input since it is only unused when
> unavailable.
>
> All this is because input.http isn't an active source. Making it an
> active source wouldn't necessarily be a great default choice either,
> because (1) this would waste opportunities for the buffer to refill
> when the input.http isn't used and (2) it makes it impossible (at
> least non-obvious) to delay the switching to an http input without
> loosing the beginning of its stream (for example, you might want to
> insert a jingle or smoothly finish a track before switching). In your
> case, using the dummy output trick essentially makes your input
> active, but you don't care about those side effects.
>
> Hope this helps,


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