Real Player stream gets garbled after a while

[DreamsToGo]

Hi to all Puppy lovers!

I have installed Puppy to harddisk and use Gzine to listen to streaming radio content, especially BBC.

My problem is that after a while the sound gets completely garbelled, its as if the stream is being decoded more than once, or out of sync. What seems to provoke this the most is a break in the stream, but that's not always true. Sometimes it just happens. If I stop the stream and then restart it, it goes back to 'normal'.

I have tried douwnloading and installing the codecs from the mplayer site but no change.

Does anyone else have this problem? If so have you fixed it?

BTW I don't think this is a Puppy problem. I think is more related to streaming realplayer.

Hilary

[DreamsToGo]

HI, I'm replying to my own post.

I thought I'd try a different distro - Ubuntu - and I don't get the problem with this one. So, it seems that this is a Puppy related thing afterall.

Hilary

[MU]

Maybe other sounddrivers might fix your problem.

There is an Alsa-Dotpup.
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.p ... light=alsa
Mark

[DreamsToGo]

Hello Mark,

Thank you for your suggestion. I have installed and configured ALSA and changed gxine to use the ALSA driver.

While listening I get a drop out and the sound still becomes garbelled. Sounds like the sound is speeded up and everyone is talking at twice their normal rate.

Any other help would be welcome.

Hilary

[MU]

You could try mplayer, but I don't know if that solves your problem.
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=3128

Mark

[GuestToo]

it might help to set the media.network.bandwidth
in /root/.gxine/config but it can probably be set from the gui too

and there are other configuration options that can be set that might help

[DreamsToGo]

Hi, I have been looking at the drivers that are loaded for the sound card. When I go into the hardware probe, in the modules sections I get,

AUDIO i810_audio: SiS SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (1039:7012) detected.

According to the hardware table this is the correct driver. But what does 'detected' mean? I thought it should be 'running' if the driver is functional and loaded.

Mark, I will try mplayer next...

Guestoo, I have tried the options one by one, takes a long time to test as you can imagine, but to no avail. It seems that whatever I do, it slips.

Thanks for your help.

[puppian]

If mplayer doesn't solve the problem try switching cache to 'on' in preference. Sometimes this works for me when playing video.

[DreamsToGo]

Hello,

I tried installing mplayer, same problem!

Some additional info, this is definately a real media streaming problem because streamed mp3 works fine, no drop outs, no slips.

Resume so far,
- I have downloaded and installed gxine 0.4.8
- I have have checked the audio driver set up - looks OK to me
- I have installed the codecs from mplayer site - no change
- I have played with the different xine settings - no change
- I have installed mplayer and the mozilla plaugins, which also install the codecs
- I have also installed realplayer10gold and helix - no change
- I still have the same problems

So, same thing happens with mplayer and xine, the common thing is the codec - hence my statement above.

Any ideas...do more recent rm codes exist?

Hilary

[Guest]

I have had the same problem since moving to my present location. We have very poor telephone lines, (dial up with very low bandwidth). The problem mainly occurs if I am browsing, especially photographs, or downloading.

It only happens with certain stations ( especially RTE ), and it is the same on my wife's Windows XP machine with Real Player.

Though I have never solved the problem I have much improved the situation with Puppy 1.04 by installing real Player and using it for the problem stations.

I had to mess around with the settings a bit but now it does not happen very often and when it does it usually sorts itself out in a few seconds.

I keep trying different settings in Gxine but so far no luck with that one.