From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 21:42:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.thought.org (sense-kline-249.oz.net [216.39.168.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3189137B407 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:42:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f7S4gUe32969; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:42:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:42:30 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Kent Stewart Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: realplayer Message-ID: <20010827214229.A32776@tao.thought.org> References: <200108280341.f7S3fOu32765@tao.thought.org> <3B8B1870.8E4E14F7@urx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <3B8B1870.8E4E14F7@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:05:04PM -0700 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 15 years of service to the Unix community Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:05:04PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Has anybody seen this problem with the latest RealAufio player > > (using the linux netscape): archived programs from NPR play > > almost in slow-motion. The sound stutters and the tenths > > counter goes at almost half speed. > > > > Since I've got a iDSL link I thought the audio would be fairly > > decent. Last year, over a PPP dialup, and under a SuSE Linux > > box (the same box), things worked well. > > Don't tell the server on the other end that your connect speed is too > high. My DSL line runs on demand from 80kb/s to 768 kb/s. I usually > listen at 100kb/s. If I tell it 3xx+ kb/s, that is when I see the > exagarated slow speed on Windows. > > Look for stations that stream using MP3. For a long time, the only > consistent audio I could get over the Internet was a small station in > Southern Mexico - http://www.cortv.com/. They introduced me to MP3 > audio. Network congestion would come and go and I could still listen > to them. The bit-rate is really small and mono but it all contributed > to listening. > Hi Kent, it's been awhile. Re these strange problems, it might be that I told the RealAudio site that I was doing ISDN at 56K. (??) Doesn't seem all that logical, but when the binary auto-installed it was set for 56Kbps. Actuallly my link is 144Kbps. So... it shouldn't be too slow. When II listen to NPR's hourly news, the sound is vastly better. I'll check out streaming MP3; thanks for the tip. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message