Hi, I've been trying to listen to the BBC's ogg broadcasts over a 56Kbps modem and have had problems. I can listen to the archived shows, but I get occasonal pauses. I assume this can be fixed by pre-loading a large enough buffer. But when I try listening to the Radio-4 stream, the buffer fills, then I get sound and for maybe 5 more seconds I continue to get modem traffic. Then the modem traffic stops and after about another 10 seconds the sound stops and then nothing. The 15 seconds or so of sound I do get has no pauses. Xmms reports about a 40Kbps data rate. Am I out of luck because I don't have a high enough data rate, or what? Here's whats on my system (RedHat 7.1). I compiled from source. Linux mofo.meme.com 2.4.17 #1 SMP Thu Jan 17 23:51:22 CST 2002 i686 unknown devfs file system turned on and permissions set to allow world read/write on the sound card (dsp, dsp1, and mixer, but not midi) xmms run as a regular user gcc-2.96-85 xmms-gnome-1.2.6-1 xmms-1.2.6-1 xmms-vorbis-1.2.6-1 xmms-devel-1.2.6-1 libao-devel-0.8.2-1 libao-0.8.2-1 libogg-1.0rc3-1 libogg-devel-1.0rc3-1 libvorbis-1.0rc3-1 xmms-vorbis-1.2.6-1 vorbis-tools-1.0rc3-1 libvorbis-devel-1.0rc3-1 Thanks, Karl <kop@meme.com> --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-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.
> > Am I out of luck because I don't have a high enough data rate, > or what?It sounds like you are just too slow, or that the link between .uk and you is too slow. It could be either, or it could be both. You might tell them your stats, whether you can get the real stream on the same connection at the same time, etc, so that they will know what bitrates work and what don't. That's half the point of this new test I believe :) jack. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-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.
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Jack Moffitt wrote:> > > > Am I out of luck because I don't have a high enough data rate, > > or what? > > It sounds like you are just too slow, or that the link between .uk and > you is too slow. It could be either, or it could be both. > > You might tell them your stats, whether you can get the real stream on > the same connection at the same time, etc, so that they will know what > bitrates work and what don't. That's half the point of this new test I > believe :) > > jack. > > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-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.We currently peer with a large amount of ISPs, so we have good connectivity to pretty much everywhere: http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/network/ I presume your upstream provider is he.net, do they peer anywhere in that map? Currently all the ogg streams are fed from one place, we are waiting on icecast to properly support splitting, although we are working on a hack ourselves. The best way to get better service is to email oggfeedback@bbc.co.uk with what you think, as with most companies, we are driven by management that follow public demand (apparently), so the more support the better. Tim. <p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-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.
Hi. I tried listening to the BBC broadcast also and had a problem. My current version is only up to date with the latest debian testing package (see below). Since everything was sounding like chipmunks, I played around with the sampling rate and got something that seems to work. I thought I'd share it with everyone in case others were having a similar problem with their ogg version: tiny:/home/a# ogg123 -v -d raw -f - http://ogg.bbc.co.uk:8001/radio4.ogg | sox -t sw - -r 3000 -t sw -f - >/dev/dsp tiny:/home/a# ogg123 -V ogg123 from vorbis-tools 1.0rc3 -James <p><p><p><p><p><p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-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.