W92Neriah wrote: > FWIW: I have been using the HLS variant of the plug-in since the BBC > debarcle last year and it has been/is working fine (for Listen Again and > live streaming, mostly for BBC R2, R4 and R4 Extra). Sounds to me like > Jerry1964's problem is definitely his LMS server. As BPA suggested - try > -temporarily- disabling what you can on the server, with particular > attention to antivirus, malware and firewall software as they might be > fiddling with your traffic. Another thing to try is the physical network > connections - could you e.g. swap network cables between the good and > bad servers, maybe even swap NICs?
Guys - many thanks for the ideas, I know from past experience how irritating intermittent problems are and how tricky they can be to solve. I don't usually run an AV or malware program on the 2012 Server - I did download and run Windows Security Essentials just in case I had picked up something nasty but it found nothing. I've uninstalled and re-installed LMS and before doing reinstalling I removed all remaining folders, users prefs etc associated with LMS (and I ran the installed as Administrator) - the only thing I didnt do was try to remove anything from the registry. I've also disabled IP v6 on the server's network adapter. No change. I've also stopped everything else running on the server - still the same problem. However I have made some progress - all local music plays fine, as do all other radio streams that I've tried. The ONLY thing that seems to be a problem is "live (UK) radio" from within the BBC iPlayer app. Even the "RadioFeeds UK and Ireland" links work fine. For example: from Radiofeeds - http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/bbcradio4fm.pls - works immediately with no buffering. from within iPlayer - iplayer://live?hls=http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_high/ak/bbc_radio_fourfm.m3u8&icon=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/imda/logos/radio4_logomobile1-1.png&radiovis=fm/ce1/c204/09320 Takes about 10 seconds to get going, plays for about 5secs then "rebuffering" for about 10secs; then plays for 20secs or so before "rebuffering"; after then it plays for a while longer, sometimes with more rebuffering breaks then after 4-5 such events it typically settles down and plays fine thereafter, though sometimes after 30-60mins the stream will stop entirely. I've tried looking at what's active via Task Manager - given tasks bounce up and down in terms of CPU usage it's hard to detect a pattern but one thing I've noticed is that when trying to play the iPlayer links both faad.exe and flac.exe do quite often bounce to the top of the list, sometimes around the point when the rebuffering occurs (though this could be confirmation bias on my behalf!). Can you guys enlighten me more on what these two processes do wrt iPlayer links please? I've tried assigning them as "high" priority processes via Task Manager but it's made no difference. I can't easily use another NIC or another cable as the server isn't near the router (it's in the garage outside of the house!) but as the problem only occurs within the iPlayer live links it doesnt seem to me to likely that is the issue? Any ideas welcome and thanks again for the feedback. Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry1964's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22126 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
