[ripecast] RIPE48 St Johns Room II audio

On 5 mei 2004, at 17:51, Bruce Campbell wrote:

> On Wed, 5 May 2004, Niels Bakker wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to listen to mms://webcast.ripe.net/ripemtg-audio2 using 
>> VLC under Mac OS X.
>> The audio feed is very, very choppy; following the discussion is 
>> impossible.
>
> This is a known problem with the audio-encoding equipment, which has 
> issues being powered on for too long.  Power-cycling the equipment 
> fixes the problem on a temporary basis, however this does disconnect 
> the audio streams.

Increasing the buffer length in VLC from 1200 ms to 7500 ms also seems 
to have helped... the audiofeed was listenable-to with WMP9 (still OSX) 
at the same time, hinting more at a client-side issue.

Now if only people would talk steadily into the mics :)


	-- Niels.

-- 
"Engineering--if you're innovating and not just shipping the same 
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  everyone else is--isn't just a science, it's an art. Sometimes art 
happens
  on a schedule and sometimes it doesn't."  -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Apr 
2004