[Savonet-users] too much buffering?

[John P. M. <jmo...@bo...>]

Does mksafe() do its own buffering?

I've got a simple script to read from a named pipe, and it doesn't seem to
work without mksafe().

Anyway, there seems to be about 20 seconds worth of buffering and I don't
think it's coming from the writer of the named pipe.
Is there some way to get around this? The writer on the pipe is controlled
by an iPod, so it's annoying to wait 20 seconds after pressing pause, or
skipping to a new track.

Fiddling with buffer/max on input.external, and burst/buffer settings on
output.harbor don't seem to improve things.

Anything else I can try?


def input.shairport(~id="input.shairport",
        ~restart=true,~restart_on_error=false,
        ~buffer=0.2,~max=10.,s) =
 input.external(id=id,restart=restart,
                restart_on_error=restart_on_error,
                buffer=buffer,max=max,
                "dd if=#{quote(s)} 2>/dev/null")
end

s = mksafe(input.shairport("/tmp/shairtunes.pcm"))
output.harbor(%mp3(bitrate=256),port=8002,fallible=false,mount="Shairport",s)