[Icecast] ices-0.4 Reencode problems

[Brendan Cully]

On Wednesday, 22 December 2004 at 10:01, Brian W. Antoine wrote:
>   Since the mailing list archives are a bit difficult to go through at the
> moment, I'll go ahead and simply ask.  If I fire up ices-0.4 with reencode
> enabled, at pretty much the end of every song I get an error:
> 
> bitstream problem: resyncing...
> 
>   Occasionally it will also throw in a:
> 
> mpg123: Can't rewind stream by NNN bits!
> 
>   And eventually after a dozen songs or so I'll get a rash of:

these are probably harmless warnings LAME will emit if there's
something odd in the source MP3 stream. I doubt they are directly
connected to the send error.

> Error during send: Libshout reported send error, disconnecting: Socket error

>   and it will close the connection and try to re-open it, only to get the
> same error again.  I'm running lame-3.96.1, libshout-2.0 and icecast-2.2.0,
> though it did it with icecast-2.1.0 also.  It will run without a hitch if
> I don't turn reencoding on.

Is it possible that you don't have enough CPU? The icecast logs would
probably have more useful information.