Maybe give this a whirl? http://transcoder.sourceforge.net/ <p>__________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online http://webhosting.yahoo.com --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Brandon
2004-Aug-06 14:23 UTC
[icecast] OT: whats your opinion of ODDSOCK streamTranscoder?
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... <p>----- Original Message ----- From: "HJ" <inzanekaoz@yahoo.com> To: <icecast@xiph.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [icecast] OT: whats your opinion of ODDSOCK streamTranscoder? <p>> Maybe give this a whirl?> > http://transcoder.sourceforge.net/ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - establish your business online > http://webhosting.yahoo.com > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to'icecast-request@xiph.org'> containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered. >--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Brandon
2004-Aug-06 14:23 UTC
[icecast] OT: whats your opinion of ODDSOCK streamTranscoder?
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. <p>----- Original Message ----- From: "oddsock" <oddsock@oddsock.org> To: <icecast@xiph.org> 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 secondof> >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 yourown> >radio stations so maybe someone has a little info for me. Short ofwriting> >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 > > > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to'icecast-request@xiph.org'> containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered. >--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
oddsock
2004-Aug-06 14:23 UTC
[icecast] OT: whats your opinion of ODDSOCK streamTranscoder?
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 <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Brandon
2004-Aug-06 14:23 UTC
[icecast] OT: whats your opinion of ODDSOCK streamTranscoder?
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.... <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.