ScottAM wrote: > I haven't figured out wireshark yet, but when I do I'll try to capture > just the music stream. Pointers welcome; it's a complicated unfamiliar > interface. I'll read the rest of post later but please please just give a pcap dump of playing a track. You can use wireshark (enable logging, and then save ) or tcpdump - no analysis just raw data.
A few years ago I spent a lot of time looking at stuttering with SB3 when playing live RealAudio streams which had to be transcoded- trying to do clever things with the data never worked. Problem can come about from the chain of processes ultimately leading to the TCP socket. Processing power and OS scheduling "realtime" are not issues here - Slimserver was able to run on NSLu2 a 266MHz ARM processor with only 32Mb RAM and v. early Openwrt standard Linux. The issues is the flow of data from source to player. How many processes, output socket control, if processes/threads how is data exchanged e.g. pipes, shared memory. My gut feeling is that output to TCP socket should either be non-blocking or else in a dedicated thread/process which has lots of data ready to send. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110986 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
