Just tried four players in PCLinuxOS p0.92.<br><br>1) RealPlayer 10 - Starts & stops and freezes and breaks.<br>2) VLC 0.8.2 - Same story<br>3) Kaffeine 0.7.1 - Near-perfect! Just one breakage and it reconnected after a few seconds. Hardy touching the CPU usuage too, less than 2% on Athlon-64 3500 dual core.
<br>4) Mplayer - Maxed out the CPU and never started display. Just blank window.<br><br>There are definitely seems to be some issues with most of the Theroa players out there now. I have never had much luck playing live OGG streams. The streams seem very fragile and break at the first sign of congestion. However, Kaffeine demonstrates that is _is_ possible.
<br><br>Regards,<br>SimonB<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/04/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:rob@visonair.tv">rob@visonair.tv</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi All,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have done some work on the streams at <a href="http://www.visonair.tv" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.visonair.tv</a> </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The seem a little better (got the page sorting
working properly now)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I would appreciate it if people could perform some
testing (again) on the Ogg stream. (visit <a href="http://www.visonair.tv/watch.php" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.visonair.tv/watch.php</a>
) Feel free to stay connected for long periods of time...</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The only problem I have noticed is that sometimes
VideoLAN/VLC has some problems playing it, or develops problems after a while,
sometimes I get lots combinations of the following types of errors:</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><br>- main warning: late picture skipped
(2588023332)<br>- main warning: vout warning: early picture skipped
(80274552479)<br>- main warning: received buffer in the future
(80275064476)<br></font><font face="Arial" size="2"></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Yet oggz-validate has no problems with the
stream. Should I be concerned with this or is VLC trying too hard!?!
Sometimes the stream stops, and the messages window just scrolls away
with:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">- main warning: PTS is out of range (10093238),
dropping buffer<br>- main warning: late picture skipped (10365269)</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">and most of the time doesnt restart on its own, I
have to manually restart it.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Plays fine with Windows Media
Player/directshow.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Thanks for your comments before, they were very
helpful... :)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Regards</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Rob Smith</font></div>
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