[icecast] Stuttering stream

Brendan Cully
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:22:47 -0000

On Wednesday, 06 February 2002 at 12:08, Don Becker
wrote:
> This reminds me of a problem I've been having occasionally with ices...
> once in a while, instead of properly decoding and re-encoding the MP3 for
> my stream, it'll stream gibberish (basically, it sounds like a
"cooked"
> MP3).  After that, maybe 1 time out of 3, it'll segfault and crash.
Even
> in verbose mode, ices doesn't report anything other than
"resyncing".
>
> Vitals: icecast 1.3.11, ices 0.2.2.
>
> Any ideas?  The MP3s play back just fine in xmms.

Is the sample rate changing? The decoder is currently very fussy about
having the audio format stay consistent.