MinimStreamer on Raspberry Pi dropout

[jack_c85]

(24-02-2015 18:27)simoncn Wrote:  

(24-02-2015 11:09)jack_c85 Wrote:  Here are my findings... we got lucky and a dropout occurred whilst logging and it looks quite different to normal streaming so hopefully you can see whats going on... it happens at 10:05:09 and lasts around 10 seconds.

Thanks for this. New media segments are supposed to arrive from the BBC every 7 seconds. Whn the dropout happened, nothing arrived between 10:04:56.438 and 10:05:09.569 (a gap of 13 seconds). At that point, it appears the Sonos ran out of stream data to play and it closed the connection to MinimServer.

I don't know why there was a 13-second gap. This might be caused by an issue with the BBC servers or a problem with your internet connection. I will add some additional debug output in the next MinimStreamer update, which should provide more information. To prevent this, it might be necessary to increase internal buffering within MinimStreamer, which would unfortunately cause the stream to be played with an additional 7 seconds of delay from "real time" analogue radio.

Thats good to know it's not really my system although could be my internet connection (I doubt it though as I have fibre broadband and get a connection speed of just under 40Mbps).

I personally wouldn't mind 7 seconds delay, would much rather this than experience drop outs. Is this a setting I can adjust or is that something you'd have to do in an update?

Many thanks for your great service.

Jack