----- Original Message -----

From: Yves Degoyon

To: Ivan Chabanaud

Cc: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at

Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 1:56 PM

Subject: Re: [PD] Some Questions

hi,

 

First :
    we get a lot of cliking
    where do you think it come from [lame ?]

first, i suspect some bandwidth problems.

lame is not that CPU-intensive

but you can check this with a 'top' command

( check CPU status ).

 

to find the bottleneck,

several actions might be taken :

 

a/ emit your stream towards a machine on your LAN,

do clicks still happen ??

 

b/ lower mpeg quality until clicks disappear.

especially, lower bitrate and increase quality factor

( higher quality parameters are LOWER quality in fact ).

let's try : "mpeg 8000 8 2 9"

which is the lowest quality.

 

also, check that pd is running with the -rt flag.

 

let me know the results of all these actions.

 

Yves/

 

PS : i've never tested shoutcast on the net, only on a LAN.

no noticeable clicks.