Ron F. wrote: > OK, I am watching the latest addition of ProtocolHandler in Wireshark. I > see the RP server send a data packet which Wireshark labels as "HTTP/1.1 > 206 Partial Content (audio/flac)" and I assume this to be the end of a > chunk? This is followed by the RP protocol handler sending a [FIN, ACK] > packet to the RP server. After RP ACKs this, we send a [SYN] and > initiate a new connection to RP, to get the next chunk? This appears to > be working fine in my system, but it does appear that the time from the > termination of the one connection to receiving a full data packet - a > TCP payload of 1448 bytes, in the following connection can take as long > as 0.5 seconds! That is a long long time. It does not appear to be a > problem for me, maybe because I set my LMS Radio Station Buffer to 30 > seconds. The time to terminate one connection and proceed with the next > is usually at least 0.1 seconds. > > Assuming I am making the correct assumptions, the time it takes to get a > chunk from RP is about 0.1 seconds ... so we now spend more time > terminating and making the next connection than actually downloading > data. Nevertheless ... this is working well for me ... I am getting > deterministic behavior, where I was not with the original protocol > handler. > > We need two chunks per second to keep the FLAC download going? I can see > where depending on a user's connection to the Internet, that it could > stutter badly. > > OK, I am now putting my ignoramus hat on ... is it possible to download > bigger chunks, and keep the advantages of this method? Hat off.
I cannot answer in details right now but can you try the update Ive put on my GitHub site? LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108189
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