[MPlayer-users] Live365 stream problems

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/17/07, The Wanderer <inverseparadox at comcast.net> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having issues in trying to play a live365.com mp3 stream. About
> > every 5 minutes it stuttters (plays the same like 1/2sec of sound
> > over and over) for about 2-4 seconds, and then goes back to normal.
> >
> > on my machine runing "MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.2-DFSG-free" eventually it
> > just does this stuttering indefinitely and I have to restart mplayer,
> > on my machine running "MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8" it does the
> > same, except instead of stuttering indefinitely it will just go
> > silent and I have to restart mplayer.
>
> Both of these are A) third-party packaged versions, which may well have
> received modifications by the third party (the "DFSG free" one in
> particular) and so are not supported here, and B) out of date. 1.0pre8
> was released last June, and 1.0rc1 was released in October. There is no
> more recent release, but there has been a LOT of development in the
> meantime; the recommended practice is to run the SVN version, preferably
> one which you compiled yourself.
>
> > the stream url is:
> > http://www.live365.com/play/293353?LID=532-usa&SaneID=24.195.3.82-1050037704630&VisitCount=3
>
> This has played - without any problems as far as I've noticed - for the
> past hour and more on my system, using SVN revision 22623.

thanks, I'll compile from SVN and give it a go (sorry if the content
you had to endure during that hour was not to your liking, I do
appreciate you taking the time though!)

-- 
Steve
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