unexpected trplayer behavior

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Geoff -


Matt has eliminated trplayer as a possible cause - he has found that my
file malfunctions in the same way when run on RealPlayer 8 without the
trplayer interface. I have asked for Peter Godman's help, so we shall
see. 
As for the bit rate deal, I have a few files which were recorded at 8000
sampling rate, and compressed to a bandwidth of 3kb, where trplayer
reports "bit rate 8k" - but other .rm files which seem to correctly report
bandwidth as the bit rate. 

Chuck
 On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Your problem is definitely something for Matt Campbell to comment on.  As
> to bit rate, this *should* always be bandwidth/data rate.  In theory at
> least, the figure reported by the B command should always be the same for
> locally stored readmedia files and non-VBR MP3 files.  I've not tried VBR
> MP3 files so I'd be interested to know what people find happens with them.
> I do know that trplayer reports 24.0kbps for 20kbps MP3 files, both
> streaming and not.  Anyway, the B command should also return the same
> measurement when listening to an MP3 stream.  If you're listening to a
> realmedia stream via a realserver, the number may well change (along with
> the quality) as the server will try to compensate for fluctuations in
> bandwidth, etc.  Note here that the stream you actually receive is in fact
> changing, which is why the measurement changes.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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