Music takes too long to start

[ravenj 2]

Hi,

When playing music outside my home network, it takes about 15-30sec to start or change a track. On home network it's normal <1sec.

 

This is not a server problem because I can listen to music using a browser or mobile app from outside my home network without this problem.

 

Is this happening to anyone else?

 

Best regards

theater-63592075552.txt

[ravenj 2]

Can't seem to find the problem.

 

Anyone else?

[Luke 42078]

It's possible that the windows direct show player needs to buffer the entire track before playing. @@babgvant is this true?

[babgvant 143]

I wouldn't think so, but it's possible that it does buffer more data because I think LAV Splitter was designed for video.

 

Let me see if there's a way to control that via the API.

[babgvant 143]

There is a setting currently implemented that may affect this.

 

Look for "NetworkStreamAnalysisDuration" in directshowplayer.xml, change it to 256 and see if that makes a difference. It looks like the default value has changed (from 1000 to 256).

 

Feel free to play with it and report if it makes a difference.

[ravenj 2]

Sorry for the delay but I had no chance to test before.

 

Tried changing the value but with no results.

[ravenj 2]

Any suggestions to solve this issue?

[babgvant 143]

There should now be 3 settings in the config xml that you can play with:

 

MaxQueueMemSize, NetworkStreamAnalysisDuration, & MaxQueueSize

 

Lower them in a controlled way to see if it makes a difference.

[ravenj 2]

@@babgvant Tried lowering all 3 and changing tracks within a queue is now normal (aprox. 1s).

 

When starting a playlist or queue it takes aprox. 30s so, no change.

Edited March 21, 2016 by Luke