Icecast - Aug 2004 - OT: whats your opinion of ODDSOCK streamTranscoder?

Maybe give this a whirl?

http://transcoder.sourceforge.net/

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Hmm....

this is the one I'm using..right? I downloaded it from ODDsock's
site....but
this is the same application, or is it not?

Maybe I should install cigwin and run the unix version on windows and see if
its better...

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<p>> Maybe give this a whirl?
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This is all happening on a box with:

Win 2k SP3
512K RAM
1.2 GHZ Celeron

The PC has noother  load...all its doing is downsampling an MP3 stream to
lower bitrates.

I'm using the LAME_ENC.DLL with streamTranscoder. There is no version number
tagged on the lame_enc.dll, but the file is dates July 2002.

When I refer to  "skipped and popped and dropped" I am referring to
your
listening experience. Maybe skipped is a bad description. Your chosen mp3
player will experience a frequent buffer underruns. So when you listening
after 30 minutes or so, the music will stop, your player rebuffers for a
send or two, then the music starts again. This will repeat 2 - 3 times an
hour. And each time a track changes you miss the first 1/2 second or so. In
between those buffer underruns its not uncommon to hear some "clicks"
in the
music..who knows why. Its almost as if streamTranscoder isn't sending out
the bytes quite fast enough. You knwo what its almost sounds like? When you
play a MP3's on a weak PC...thats what the stream sounds liek when you tune
in.

This doesn't happen when I use SHOUTcast DSP. I've switch back and forth
between the two tools and listen hour after hour and compared.

I kept track of the CPU utlilization. shoutCAST DSP keeps a around a stead
50% CPU utilization with 3 output streams. streamTranscaster cycles from
almost 0% up to 100%  evbery few seconds.

So, since I'm the only one haiving these problems, its got to be my
computer. Anything jump out at you?

I'll just keep messing around with it...I haven't given up yet. I really
want to use streamTranscoder. It irritates me that I have to leave winamp
running just to transcode a stream.

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Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] OT: whats your opinion of ODDSOCK streamTranscoder?

<p>> At 07:27 PM 3/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >I tried it on Windows 2000 and then compared it against shoutCAST DSP
> >plugin. It sucked. It skipped and popped and cut off the first 1/2
second
of
> >each track and dropped. It sucked, while shoutCast DSP was flawless.
>
> this is the first I've heard of this problem....and there are alot of
> people that I know that are using it...none so far have reported this as a
> problem...maybe if you provided some information that actually could be
> used to reproduce or debug the problem..otherwise, based on your statement
> "skipped and popped and dropped" is not terribly specific....
>
>
> >are there any other transcoders out there? Many of you probably run
your
own
> >radio stations so maybe someone has a little info for me. Short of
writing
> >my own is there something I can use that can transcode streams and not
> >require the use of an mp3 player and soundcard?
>
> nope, there aren't..which is actually why I wrote it...
>
> oddsock
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At 07:27 PM 3/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I tried it on Windows 2000 and then compared it against shoutCAST DSP
>plugin. It sucked. It skipped and popped and cut off the first 1/2 second of
>each track and dropped. It sucked, while shoutCast DSP was flawless.
this is the first I've heard of this problem....and there are alot of 
people that I know that are using it...none so far have reported this as a 
problem...maybe if you provided some information that actually could be 
used to reproduce or debug the problem..otherwise, based on your statement 
"skipped and popped and dropped" is not terribly specific....

<p>>are there any other transcoders out there? Many of you probably run
your own
>radio stations so maybe someone has a little info for me. Short of writing
>my own is there something I can use that can transcode streams and not
>require the use of an mp3 player and soundcard?
nope, there aren't..which is actually why I wrote it...

oddsock

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What is everyones opinion and expierience with using ODDSOCK
streamTranscoder to downsample mp3 streams?

I tried it on Windows 2000 and then compared it against shoutCAST DSP
plugin. It sucked. It skipped and popped and cut off the first 1/2 second of
each track and dropped. It sucked, while shoutCast DSP was flawless.

What attracted to me to streamTranscoder was you don't have to run an MP3
player (ala Winamp) to downsample/transcode your streams. You can put it on
a server with no sound card.

are there any other transcoders out there? Many of you probably run your own
radio stations so maybe someone has a little info for me. Short of writing
my own is there something I can use that can transcode streams and not
require the use of an mp3 player and soundcard?

Maybe I was doing something wrong with streamTranscoder, but I don't think
so. There aren't too many setting in there....the computer has plenty of
ram, 1 gig cpu..no load...new lame dll....

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