[MPlayer-users] Re: BUG - Garbled output playing realaudio

[Bryan Alton]

I've got an ethereal trace of a stream "collapse" around midday on R1. 
I think general network load (e.g. the network was throttling the 
BBC's ability to broadcast)played a part but from 11:45am there was
a huge number of missing packets sometimes groups of 9 went missing
so perhaps the same machine that does the encoding does the broadcasting
so the problems are interconnected obliquely.

I haven't analysed the trace yet but from observation the Mplayer 
buffer went to 0% and hence it stopped but when packets came in, 
Mplayer tried to start but then ran out of data again so fragments
of choppy audio mixed with silence was heard - it took about
30-40 secs before the stream stabilised but when it did 
audio was fine.

Bryan