Re: [Savonet-users] ogg/flac hang randomly

[Romain B. <to...@ra...>]

Hi again!

2011/9/13 Romain Beauxis <to...@ra...>:
> 2011/9/13 David Baelde <dav...@en...>:
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:56 AM, David Baelde
>> <dav...@en...> wrote:
>>>> So we can argue that the FLAC decoder takes to long to prepare and decode files
>>> Yes, this is a valid hypothesis, we need to investigate in that direction.
>>
>> One thing that remains to be explained, though: why does it work with
>> an MP3 output instead of an OGG/FLAC one? It might not be the decoder
>> alone that causes problems...
>
> Flac generates a lot of data. It could be the case that the mp3
> encoder is able to deliver smaller amount of data quicker and that it
> is enough to avoid a timeout..
>
> I am testing locally here. It is working but I've already had to
> increase mplayer pre-buffering to avoid underruns.. I'll let you know
> if I have some ideas/results/fixes...

Just one more request: what version of icecast do you have? Try this:
  icecast2 -v

Romain