[SlimDevices: Beta] Re: going downhill quick

[Dougal]

Andy Grundman;155790 Wrote: 
> On Nov 18, 2006, at 2:05 PM, snarlydwarf wrote:
> 
> >
> > and that is the real trick to deciding the size of buffering
> streams.
> >
> > Do you provide the user with a nice realtime response and start  
> > playing
> > as soon as you have the first couple of frames?  In practice, that  
> > ends
> > up being awful: a slight network delay will make the stream
> stop/start
> > painfully.
> >
> > Or do you have a nice fat buffer immune to all but the most severe
> > outages?  But who wants to wait 10 minutes to actually hear the  
> > station
> > they clicked on?
> >
> > Perhaps a player-setting could be added to allow people to tweak it
> > from the default so in cases of network problems they can be more
> > patient at the start to avoid cutout problems.  The Squeezebox
> should
> > have plenty of RAM for more buffering than people could possibly
> want.
> 
> And this is exactly what the "Radio Station Buffer Seconds" value is  
> for.

Thanks for the explanation,
Doug.


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