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Title: Play http stream: why play starts after 6 sec?
Post by: JanJankovsky on April 05, 2015, 07:07:57 am

I'm playing http streams from local network. But when starting play it show that stream has duration 6 sec (duration is different for different streams) It's look like MC cash for 6 sec stream and only after that start play.
When I open the same stream in VLC or WindowsMC it's starts play without delay.
How can I change cash/duration of stream
url of stream looks like that: http://192.168.1.100:8001/1:0:11:4A34:14:70:1680000:0:0:0:

Question two: how can I change file order in playlist?

Title: Re: Play http stream: why play starts after 6 sec?
Post by: bob on April 16, 2015, 11:53:24 am

Quote from: JanJankovsky on April 05, 2015, 07:07:57 am

I'm playing http streams from local network. But when starting play it show that stream has duration 6 sec (duration is different for different streams) It's look like MC cash for 6 sec stream and only after that start play.
When I open the same stream in VLC or WindowsMC it's starts play without delay.
How can I change cash/duration of stream
url of stream looks like that: http://192.168.1.100:8001/1:0:11:4A34:14:70:1680000:0:0:0:

Question two: how can I change file order in playlist?

Options->Audio->Settings->Prebuffering (6 secs is default, you will not want to set it to 0)

Display the playlist as a list. Drag the items to reorder them.

Title: Re: Play http stream: why play starts after 6 sec?
Post by: JanJankovsky on April 16, 2015, 12:30:07 pm

Thank you for answer Bob
the minimum prebuffering that I can set the menu (Options->Audio->Settings->Prebuffering) is 2 seconds. But even when I set it to 2 sec it still brebuffering more that 2 sec: about 6-8 sec.And why my video streams have duration's 6, 8, 9 seconds (it's a video not only audio streams)?

Title: Re: Play http stream: why play starts after 6 sec?
Post by: bob on April 16, 2015, 03:26:30 pm

Quote from: JanJankovsky on April 16, 2015, 12:30:07 pm

Thank you for answer Bob
the minimum prebuffering that I can set the menu (Options->Audio->Settings->Prebuffering) is 2 seconds. But even when I set it to 2 sec it still brebuffering more that 2 sec: about 6-8 sec.And why my video streams have duration's 6, 8, 9 seconds (it's a video not only audio streams)?

I played around with this a bit, the amount of buffering is a fuzzy algorithm to minimize gaps.
The duration is calculated as well since the stream in general provides no duration. What you should be seeing basically is how far you are from the end of the stream and if it buffered up 6-8 seconds that would explain the duration you see.
I see different behavior here depending on which audio stream I'm playing.

Title: Re: Play http stream: why play starts after 6 sec?
Post by: JanJankovsky on April 17, 2015, 02:35:02 am

So as I understand we can't control buffering manually.

Title: Re: Play http stream: why play starts after 6 sec?
Post by: bob on April 17, 2015, 10:38:47 am

Quote from: JanJankovsky on April 17, 2015, 02:35:02 am

So as I understand we can't control buffering manually.

It appears not for streams.