[wellylug] VLC and RadioNZ MMS stream

[jumbophut]

Hi all

I'm having some trouble getting VLC to stream RadioNZ National's live MMS feed.

I get anywhere from 3 to 10 seconds of perfect audio, then a big
delay, then sometimes another few seconds (but not always).  Once I
got 4 or 5 snatches before it died.  Sometimes I get nothing at all
("nothing to play" in the logs and it stops).  It's basically really
unreliable.

I'm on dial-up, so I have forced it to use 32kb/s rather than the
optional 63.  I can see in the logs that it is choosing the slower
stream when I do that, but that doesn't help with the reliability.
Fiddling with buffering (up or down) hasn't helped either.

I can listen quite happily to Radio Sport, an MMS feed which -- as far
as I can tell -- comes from the same server and uses the same codec
and bitrate (32kb/s).  This suggests it might not be a VLC issue.

If you are running VLC, would you mind trying to stream
mms://202.7.7.90/rnz-natrad and letting me know what happens?

Cheers

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')