Re: [slim] Softsqueeze 3.7 Ogg + network latency issues

[ralphy]

zingo;354382 Wrote: 
> I had alot of problem with softsqueeze I found another player called
> squeezeslave. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54124
> 

Unfortunately, there's not an OSX binary available.

Perhaps you could create one from the source.  I'd be happy to help out
as I've been looking for someone with a Mac to create such a binary for
release on the sourceforge site.

Ralphy


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Re: [slim] Softsqueeze 3.7 Ogg + network latency issues

[zingo]

I had alot of problem with softsqueeze I found another player called
squeezeslave. I don't know where I found it mine is called 
squeezeslave-0.7.5.1-linux-i386-svn20167 if you need to google... 

It seem to work much better on my system (ubuntu). You will not get a
GUI so you are forced to use the webinterface as GUI.

I think that I read somewhere that the controller code could be used as
a player. I didn't manage to get this working, After I manage to compile
it it wanted to connect to a Receiver... It might have to do that I used
7.2 and not the latest (7.3) stuff, but I didn't try to much...


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[slim] Softsqueeze 3.7 Ogg + network latency issues

[neurophyre]

I have a couple questions about Softsqueeze 3.7.

1. does it natively support Ogg as a streamed format?  I'm curious
because I'm having bandwidth issues between my remote Softsqueeze
instance and my server at home, and I was wondering if I could
transcode down to 128-160Kbps Ogg on the fly to reduce bandwidth needs.
Ogg sounds MUCH better than MP3 at low bitrates, so I'd prefer to use
it if possible.  (Also the CPU in my server is pretty ancient, so I
usually have to tell it to use faster/worse algorithms for live
transcoding.)

2. I'm wondering if there's any possibility of a setting for
Softsqueeze where it could grab as much of the file it's playing as
possible ahead of time instead of doing continuous buffering of a
couple seconds.  My issues are with intermittent latency spikes, so if
the app could start buffering the entire file this would greatly reduce
skipping as long as my average throughput was still higher than the
file's bitrate.

2.5 When I increase the size of Softsqueeze's buffer, it becomes
obvious that the spectrum analyzer output is displaying what
Softsqueeze is currently receiving over the network, NOT what it is
currently outputting over the computer's sound system.

3. When network latency gets bad, often the UI on the Softsqueeze will
get severely out of sync to the point where I have to quit the
application and restart it because it will not recover.  I will hit the
pause button and the sound stops, but the spectrum analyzer will keep
playing and Squeezecenter may think that the player is not paused. 
Clearly there are messages getting lost or discarded and
Softsqueeze+Squeezecenter are not recovering from this.  Also,
sometimes the web interface in Squeezecenter fails to update when I try
to control the player using it, and the player won't respond.

Any suggestions or tips on these issues, and/or suggestions to file bug
reports would be appreciated.  I'm running Softsqueeze 3.7 on OS X and
Squeezecenter 7.2 on Debian etch.


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