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mathijsie
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 Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 8:33 am Post subject: Icecast + ezstream + VLC = last second of every song cut off |
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Hi there,
I have set up a radio station using Icecast and Ezstream. However, I'm encountering quite an annoying problem. When I listen to the stream using the VLC media player, about one second at the end of each song is cut off. It seems that, at the moment ezstream starts streaming out the next song, VLC immediately stops playing the current song, starts buffering again and starts the next song.
As you can imagine, this is not desirable. Could it have something to do with my config? Is this a problem of icecast, or ezstream, or just VLC (e.g. in MediaMonkey the stream works just fine).
Icecast config:
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<!-- This config file contains a minimal set of configurable parameters,
and mostly just contains the things you need to change. We created
this for those who got scared away from the rather large and heavily
commented icecast.xml.dist file. -->
<icecast>
<limits>
<sources>4</sources>
<source-timeout>5</source-timeout>
<burst-size>0</burst-size>
</limits>
<authentication>
<source-password>hackme</source-password>
<relay-password>hackme</relay-password>
<admin-user>admin</admin-user>
<admin-password>hackme</admin-password>
</authentication>
<hostname>192.168.2.3</hostname>
<listen-socket>
<port>8000</port>
</listen-socket>
<fileserve>1</fileserve>
<paths>
<logdir>./logs</logdir>
<webroot>./web</webroot>
<adminroot>./admin</adminroot>
<alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>
</paths>
<logging>
<accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
<errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
<loglevel>3</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
</logging>
<mount>
<mount-name>/vorbis.ogg</mount-name>
<fallback-mount>/silence96.ogg</fallback-mount>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
</mount>
</icecast>
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ezstream config:
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<ezstream>
<url>http://192.168.2.3:8000/vorbis.ogg</url>
<!--
If a different user name than "source" should be used, set it in
<sourceuser/>:
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<!-- <sourceuser>mr_stream</sourceuser> -->
<sourcepassword>hackme</sourcepassword>
<format>VORBIS</format>
<filename>C:\(**)\playlist.bat</filename>
<playlist_program>1</playlist_program>
<!-- For demonstrational purposes, explicitly set continuous streaming: -->
<stream_once>1</stream_once>
<!--
The following settings are used to describe your stream to the server.
It's up to you to make sure that the bitrate/quality/samplerate/channels
information matches up with your input stream files.
-->
<svrinfoname>**</svrinfoname>
<svrinfourl>**</svrinfourl>
<svrinfodescription>**</svrinfodescription>
<!-- Allow the server to advertise the stream on a public YP directory: -->
<svrinfopublic>0</svrinfopublic>
</ezstream>
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The playlist.bat file just returns an audio file every time it's called.
Thanks in advance. |
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Brutish
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:11 am Post subject: |
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Just out of curiosity, why do you leave your burst size zero? You have no buffer issues?
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mathijsie
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| Just out of curiosity, why do you leave your burst size zero? You have no buffer issues? |
Hi,
I was just experimenting in the hope it'd solve my problem. Unfortunately, it didn't, so I have already set the burst size to the default value again. |
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Brutish
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:43 am Post subject: |
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What is EZstream exactly? I tried to find out what they do, and the web page describes a whole lot of nothing. Web host, streaming support? It looks like they have an extensive support group on the site, and with the prices and clients, I would recommend this route first.
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mathijsie
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
EZstream is not the same as ezstream. |
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Brutish
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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Ahhh. Never messed with it.
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Brutish
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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Playing with it right now. I have to go to work, BUT....
Just out of curiosity, Is your songs you have it streaming the same bitrate, Khz, and channel? Are they VBR or CBR?
Im just assuming here, but maybe when it switches songs to encode, the different file setting (if you have not made the music files uniform) cause error? Experiment with two files recorded in the exact same manor; Khz, sample rate, channel.
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mathijsie
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
However all files are Ogg-Vorbis, stereo, 32kHz, 96kbps CBR. All files are in the same format. |
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IglooJordan
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| Ampache works really well with VLC, why not just make a change? It has been about a year since your post and I wanted to bring it to life to see if you fixed your problem. I am almost positive it wasn't VLC or a video converter causing the issue because every time I have used the aforementioned combo I have had not only the best experience, but easily the best audio quality especially when wearing my headphones. It's quite nice to the little eardrums in my dome. |
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