Hi, Shawn, I have done it that way, but if you have a fast enough connection, you can move both those track bars to 0 with the home key, and see what that does, but on my system, that causes streams to skip.
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 04:01:58 -0700 (PDT), shawn klein wrote: >Hi Marty, wish I'd known there was something I could >do before, lol. We'll be getting DSL Friday, so I >won't have to worry about the dial up. Is it still a >good idea to set it up that way with 256 by 256 >connection? >Shawn >--- Marty Rimpau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, Marie, go to preferences with control p, and >> then from the >> tree-view, select plugins, and then input, and then >> tab over to the >> list, and select the first one, the mp3 encoder, and >> then tab to the >> configure button, and press the space bar, upon >> which you'll be in a >> tab control, and you should be focused on the >> general tab, for points >> of reference, but once you've done that, control >> shift tab to the >> streaming tab, and once there, tab to the track >> bars, the first one, >> with window-eyes will say 20 of 50, so, press the >> end key, to put that >> at 50 of 50, then tab to the next track bar, which >> should default to 40 >> of 50, but again, press the end key on the six pack >> to bring this to 50 >> of 50, that would be 100 per cent, if you're using >> jaws, tab to the >> okay button, and press the space bar, then tab to >> the close button, and >> again, press the space bar, and you're done, >> because, with the buffer >> as wide as it will go, there is less likelihood of >> break up with >> streams. With your 56k connection, just leave the >> edit box at 64kbps, >> that is before the track bars, but if you had a >> slower connection, I >> would have instructed you to change this to 128, but >> if you did that, >> the stream would have taken a long time to buffer. >> These settings also >> assume that you're trying to listen to a dial-up >> stream, because if you >> try to listen to a stream like broad band, which >> would be too fast for >> your connection, that would be another reason why >> winamp would buffer, >> because it couldn't fill its' buffer fast enough. >> Hope this helps you, >> and if anybody has any corrections to make, please >> do so, but this is >> what I do to insure less break ups from streams. >> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:58:32 -0700, mimi wrote: >> >> >Hi, Gang. >> > >> >I'm having a bit of a problem listening to online >> broadcasts through Winamp. I have a dialup >> connection and the stream often starts and stops >> when I am listening. Is there any way to fine-tune >> Winamp 2.90 so that the breakup would stop? The >> broadcast seems to skip as well a little bit. >> > >> >When I used to have cable or DSL, I noticed some >> breakup, but not as severe as this. So, I'm >> wondering if maybe some special fine-tuning needs to >> be done before tuning into online broadcasts again. >> Part of the reason I don't have DSL anymore, is many >> of the providers tie you to a contract and I just >> got out of one when I got no satisfaction from a >> provider. I find it to be a high speed hheadache >> when the technicians will not come out and assist >> live with a problem. Being without sighted help I >> have to wrestle with this alone. >> > >> >Any tips on fine-tuning Winamp 2.90 would be >> appreciated. It is the version I am most >> comfortable with as the latest version 5.03 is not >> screen reader friendly even with Window-Eyes. There >> are too many inaccessible features with 5.03, which >> is why I took it off my system after getting it back >> from the shop. >> > >> >Mimi >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and >> more... >> >http://www.pc-audio.org >> > >> >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email >> to: >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Marty >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >> >> http://www.pc-audio.org >> >> To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email >> to: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marty _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
