Vorbis - Jun 2007 - Permanent stream

Hi, all. I'm setting up a system that streams audio from a public radio
studio
to it's transmitter on a mountaintop via a wireless IP link. The stream is a
high quality ogg-vorbis stream (around 200 kbps). The server (icecast) is 
working perfectly.

The client (I'm using ogg123) has to connect 24/7/365, but it occasionally 
(maybe every couple of days) looses the stream and stops. So I'm presently 
starting it up in a shell script as an infinite loop (while true, ogg123 ...) 
and putting it in the background NOHUP. Works fine, but I was wondering if 
anyone had a better way to do this.

Also, would it be a good idea to restart the stream every, say, 4am, to deal 
with time-sync differences between the sound cards?

Thanks.

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On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:57:15PM -0700, Jeff Simmons wrote:
> Also, would it be a good idea to restart the stream every, say, 4am, to
deal
> with time-sync differences between the sound cards?
It's possible this is why it's dropping every few days, so sure, give 
that a try.

The more sophisticated solution is to resample on the fly to keep up 
with the clock drift. gstreamer can do this (q.v. flumotion) but it's
much heavier weight. If nobody minds the dropout...

 -r