Hi, I'm trying to listen to mms://webcast.ripe.net/ripemtg-audio2 using VLC under Mac OS X. The audio feed is very, very choppy; following the discussion is impossible. By contrast, mms://webcast.ripe.net/ripemtg works very nicely (both video and audio), so I assume the problem isn't at my end. Can you investigate this? Regards, -- Niels Bakker Tel: +31 205 141 716 Amsterdam Internet Exchange Mobile: +31 651 902 772 http://www.ams-ix.net/ E-mail: Niels.Bakker@ams-ix.net
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Niels Bakker wrote:
I'm trying to listen to mms://webcast.ripe.net/ripemtg-audio2 using VLC under Mac OS X.
The audio feed is very, very choppy; following the discussion is impossible.
This is a known problem with the audio-encoding equipment, which has issues being powered on for too long. Power-cycling the equipment fixes the problem on a temporary basis, however this does disconnect the audio streams. The encoder machine itself also needed to be power-cycled this afternoon during the IPv6 and Database sessions due to related issues, which disconnected all of the streams. Further investigation into these will happen outside the Meeting hours. -- Bruce Campbell RIPE Systems/Network Engineer NCC www.ripe.net - PGP562C8B1B Operations/Security "Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds." -- J. Finnegan, USC.
On 5 mei 2004, at 17:51, Bruce Campbell wrote:
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Niels Bakker wrote:
I'm trying to listen to mms://webcast.ripe.net/ripemtg-audio2 using VLC under Mac OS X. The audio feed is very, very choppy; following the discussion is impossible.
This is a known problem with the audio-encoding equipment, which has issues being powered on for too long. Power-cycling the equipment fixes the problem on a temporary basis, however this does disconnect the audio streams.
Increasing the buffer length in VLC from 1200 ms to 7500 ms also seems to have helped... the audiofeed was listenable-to with WMP9 (still OSX) at the same time, hinting more at a client-side issue. Now if only people would talk steadily into the mics :) -- Niels. -- "Engineering--if you're innovating and not just shipping the same product everyone else is--isn't just a science, it's an art. Sometimes art happens on a schedule and sometimes it doesn't." -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Apr 2004
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