[Icecast] Metadata and bad player behaviour : cut sound for short time when receiving metadata (kh versions of ices/icecast)

[Iceuse - Kris]

>I'm having weird effects with sound in vlc 0.8.1, it keeps speeding up
>and slowing down. Does ogg123 have a similar issue.  A possible cause is
>that when new headers are received the player may very well reset the
>audio interface to the settings in the new header and this could cause
>the cut.
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I few month ago, I was using xmms (I can't set up X11 sound oc mac, so I 
can't use xmms any more), and I never noticed troubles with comments.

>For a test, try downloading the stream to file then play the file back.
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I'll test that.

>I haven't used JORBIS myself
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very nice tool. We can easilly build a beautifull java player around it.

>>Before changing to latest icecast, I would like to know if there is a 
>>similar trouble with it (I don't say it's an icecast issue, but maybe 
>>with newer ogg headers are handled correctly by players. Anyway, VLC is 
>>buggy regarding comments).
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>some players are known to have problems with chained bitstreams, my vlc
>seems ok with the chaining but screws up on sound output.
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I'll try to contact VLC team, because that's not nice at all. At least, 
they should ignore the comments, because they are not displaying them 
(just in a strange way in information window)


Regards,
Chris

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