Hi Everyone, Has anyone come across problems listening back to Mp3 streams using VLC? The reason I ask is that we [ResonanceFM] stream at 128K and at 24K (using two different Icecast instances). All players (Zinf, Winamp, Media Player etc) can play both streams bar VLC which seems to exhibt a skipping (i.e like the sound of a CD) problem when playing the 24K stream. Incidently it plays the 128 fine. The two streams are: http://relay.exequo.org/resonanceFM (24K) http://212.23.57.33:8010 (128K) VLCs' log reports the following: main warning: audio drift is too big (133407), dropping buffer I'm not particularly au fait with Icecast so any help would be extremely helpful. Cheers, Chris Weaver ====Are you tuned to Resonance104.4fm? Visit the dedicated Resonance104.4fm website resonancefm.com or l-m-c.org.uk __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
I have been quit dissatisfied with VLC for listening to streams from icecast. I get the same thing you do, with clicks and pops frequently, and the speed drifts. If I played VLC side by side with another player, they got more and more out of tune and out of sync with each the longer it was played. I'm quite certain icecast isn't to blame for this, as VLC is the only client I've seen to exhibit this behavior. I don't VLC is really designed to be a good streaming audio client. I chose not to even list it as a supported player on our website. Joel Chris Weaver wrote:> Hi Everyone, > > Has anyone come across problems listening back to Mp3 > streams using VLC? > > The reason I ask is that we [ResonanceFM] stream at > 128K and at 24K (using two different Icecast > instances). All players (Zinf, Winamp, Media Player > etc) can play both streams bar VLC which seems to > exhibt a skipping (i.e like the sound of a CD) problem > when playing the 24K stream. Incidently it plays the > 128 fine. > > The two streams are: > http://relay.exequo.org/resonanceFM (24K) > http://212.23.57.33:8010 (128K) > > VLCs' log reports the following: > > main warning: audio drift is too big (133407), > dropping buffer > > I'm not particularly au fait with Icecast so any help > would be extremely helpful. > > Cheers, > > Chris Weaver > > > > > > ====> Are you tuned to Resonance104.4fm? Visit the dedicated Resonance104.4fm website resonancefm.com or l-m-c.org.uk > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 14:18, Chris Weaver wrote:> Hi Everyone, > > Has anyone come across problems listening back to Mp3 > streams using VLC? > > The reason I ask is that we [ResonanceFM] stream at > 128K and at 24K (using two different Icecast > instances). All players (Zinf, Winamp, Media Player > etc) can play both streams bar VLC which seems to > exhibt a skipping (i.e like the sound of a CD) problem > when playing the 24K stream. Incidently it plays the > 128 fine.I have noticed that some versions of vlc have been known to trigger a speed up/slow down/dropping data of playback midstream. I usually see messages like the one you reported or resampling messages. There really isn't much icecast can do for these situations, it's purely something that vlc is doing. I suspect it's just some tolerance level in VLC being set incorrectly, make sure the VLC people know about the problem and the version you have (you can easily repeat the problem as well). karl.
I have brought this problem to the attention of the VLC development group before the holidays. This problem is somehow related to the Icecast2 Burst-on-Connect mode and how VLC handles this, or in this case doesn't very well. If Icecast2 Burst-on-Connect is disabled, VLC has less trouble syncing to the stream. I was told by one of the VLC folks that they need to change their HTTP stream mode in the player to make this work correctly. I have been trying to get a time-table for this fix, but have so far, been unsuccessful. Unfortunately, the only fix is to disable Icecast2 Burst-on-Connect mode for the time being to be VLC compatible. At 06:18 2005-02-10 -0800, Chris Weaver wrote:>Hi Everyone, > >Has anyone come across problems listening back to Mp3 >streams using VLC? > >The reason I ask is that we [ResonanceFM] stream at >128K and at 24K (using two different Icecast >instances). All players (Zinf, Winamp, Media Player >etc) can play both streams bar VLC which seems to >exhibt a skipping (i.e like the sound of a CD) problem >when playing the 24K stream. Incidently it plays the >128 fine. > >The two streams are: >http://relay.exequo.org/resonanceFM (24K) >http://212.23.57.33:8010 (128K) > >VLCs' log reports the following: > >main warning: audio drift is too big (133407), >dropping buffer > >I'm not particularly au fait with Icecast so any help >would be extremely helpful. > >Cheers, > >Chris Weaver > > > > > >====>Are you tuned to Resonance104.4fm? Visit the dedicated Resonance104.4fm >website resonancefm.com or l-m-c.org.uk > > > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! >http://my.yahoo.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Icecast mailing list >Icecast@xiph.org >http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast________________________________________ Greg J. Ogonowski VP Product Development ORBAN/CRL, Inc. 1525 Alvarado St. San Leandro, CA 94577 USA TEL +1 510 351-3500 FAX +1 510 351-0500 Web: http://www.orban.com E-Mail: greg@orban.com