mplayer with shoutcast streams

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

What you describe sounds like you don't have the band width for the
stream.  Try increasing your cache size or selecting a lower bit rate
stream.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny
	  
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:43:22PM -0500, Garrett Klein wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 	I'm having this really annoying problem with mplayer and
> listening to shoutcast streams. Keep in mind I'm on a slow dial-up
> line... but I don't think that has to do with it. Anyway, the problem is
> that, after playing the audio stream for about a minute (regardless of
> whether the cache size is at the default of 64KB or 256 KB) the stream
> stops and starts about every two seconds, mpg123 says "cannot rewind
> stream by xxx bits," and alsa starts shouting about xruns of all at
> least 2000 miliseconds. Oss doesn't care, but mpg123 still gives me the
> "cannot rewind" errors. Any suggestions? Thanks.
> 
> Garrett
> 
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