Hi Folks, I've been experiencing odd behavior lately. When I start a stream it sometimes begins to stream at double the speed of what I'm sending it. Stopping and restarting the stream usually solves the problem, but not always. Stopping and restarting the server doesn't have any effect. I was using Oddcast 3 standalone as the streaming client, and I thought there may be a problem there, so I switched to SimpleCast. Got the same problem. I think it might be the Icecast2 server now, although the logs don't show any strangeness. Have any of you experienced something like this? It sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Any help greatly appreciated. MTX -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20051004/d3cd7f45/attachment.htm>
On 10/4/05, Matthew Schmidt <matthew.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi Folks, > > I've been experiencing odd behavior lately. When I start a stream it > sometimes begins to stream at double the speed of what I'm sending it. > Stopping and restarting the stream usually solves the problem, but not > always. Stopping and restarting the server doesn't have any effect.This is probably a client problem; it's possibly connecting at an 'unlucky' point, and getting false sync, picking the wrong sample rate, and doing playback from then on at the wrong rate. Good mp3 decoders/players look for multiple consecutive sync words at appropriate points before deciding they've actually found sync and fixing on those settings, this reduces the chances of this happening to essentially zero. Mike