Thanks for the quick reply, I was afraid that was the problem! I'll try tweaking the quality though.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 09:22, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Norman, > > I tried http streaming even before voyage mpd is announced. ALIX is > underpower and cannot fit http streaming purpose. If you define bitrate it > is even worse. It is better if you set quality instead of bitrate in your > configuration below, but you would still expect some skips. In addition, > change from stereo to mono makes CPU consume less, i.e. format = > "44100:16:1". > > May be you can try icecast to see if it gets better... > > Regards, > Punky > > > On 11/26/2010 5:03 PM, Norman Henderson wrote: > >> Hi, I have a Voyage 0.6.5 system on which I run a number of different >> things including mpd. It works fine for playback through the ALSA device >> (headphone jack) with about 15% CPU use. However when I set up an httpd >> output and connect to it from my laptop (with the browser or with VLC, etc.) >> CPU immediately goes to almost 100% and the playback starts to skip (both >> through the ALSA and through the laptop). >> >> At first I thought this was because I was streaming vorbis and the music >> files (which are on a local USB drive) are mp3. So with some pain I compiled >> mpd 0.15.15 with lame support and got that working. However my high CPU >> problem is still there. I believe the output matches the file format so >> there shouldn't be any resampling (but I don't know a lot about this stuff): >> >> audio_output { >> type "httpd" >> name "Voyage HTTP Stream" >> encoder "lame" # optional, vorbis or lame >> port "8000" >> # quality "5.0" # do not define if bitrate >> is defined >> bitrate "192" # do not define if quality >> is defined >> format "44100:16:2" >> } >> Incidentally results were the same with the default bitrate 128, or with >> 96, and with 1 instead of 2 channels in the format. >> >> The system also has a Samba server running and if I use e.g. VLC on my >> laptop to just play the files from the network share that's fine too, no >> skipping and normal CPU usage - so I don't think it's a networking issue. >> >> Any suggestions? Does the new Voyage MPD build support playback of mp3's >> over mpd's built-in httpd streaming server without problems, and is there >> anything special about the configuration? >> - Norm >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Voyage-linux mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux >> > > > -- > Regards, > Punky > > Voyage Solutions (http://solution.voyage.hk) > * Embedded Solutions and Systems > - Mesh Networking, Captive Portal, IP Surveillance, VoIP/PBX > - Network Engineering, Development Platform and Consultation > > > >
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