[icecast] Stuttering stream

Don Becker
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:22:46 -0000

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.

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Jack Moffitt wrote:

> > Hi Jack. Why ices? Or, why not iceplay or shout?
>
> iceplay had bad timing problems.  Perl just doesn't have fine grain
> timing, at least not enough for our purposes.  It seemed to work fine at
> 128kbps most of the time.
>
> It could probably be rewritten to be better, but I dunno if it could
> ever be as good as the C code.
>
> shout also had timing problems and these became quite apparent in later
> versions.  It didn't support VBR either (nor did iceplay).
>
> ices is built on libshout.  libshout should have perfect timing and it
> also detects and discards corrupt frames and supports VBR streams.  It
> is basically the _new_ version of shout.
>
> jack.
>
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