On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Nigel Orr <nigel....@nautronix.co.uk>wrote:

>
>   I am working on a gnuradio application which takes feeds from other
> sources over Ethernet. There is a possibility that the source will be
> disconnected occasionally due to intermittent network failures, when
> that happens I'd like the audio to go silent, and come back when the
> source is reconnected. In short, I'd like it to behave like an analogue
> audio connection :-) UDP looks like the closest option to that, so
> that's what I've tried so far.
>
> I currently connect the UDP blocks with something like
> udp_in = gr.udp_source((gr.sizeof_float*1), "0.0.0.0", 1234, 1472, True,
> True)
> and then connect them into the flowgraph.
>
> I have tried various options (all 4!) of the Boolean settings for Wait
> for data and empty packet = EOF, but it doesn't seem to do what I need.
> At best (with the above settings), the flowgraph pauses when the UDP is
> disconnected, so all the local sources which are still connected buffer
> up, resulting in long delays when the UDP comes back.
>
> Is it possible to get 'analogue-like' performance from a network socket
> connection, if so how should I do that within gnuradio? Is there
> something clever I can do with Throttle or Valve or something which will
> decouple loss of a UDP audio stream from the rest of the flowgraph?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nigel
>

Hi Nigel,
Sorry for taking so long and then giving you this response. I really don't
have any good ideas to tell you for your problem. There's probably not a
good way to do it currently, so you might need to roll your own
implementation of the UDP source block that performs like you want it to.

Tom
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