Re: 128k WMA problem solved on Wi-Fi radios

On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:03:51 +0000, DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

hwh wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM schreef:

There's links for Chill, theJazz and Classic FM on here:

http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/broadband_internet_radio.htm

But the issue was only with playback on Wi-Fi Internet radios,
because they reduced the bit rate for playback from 128k to 32k, but
if you play them on a computer they're always 128k (apart from if
there's some dynamic bandwidth reduction, but that's rare).

Right, thanks. I tried a few of them on my iMac and they played at the
advertised rates. I told the system to use VLC player, not iTunes (for
Guiseppe, www.videolan.org).


Ah, nice one! I wonder if they play at 128k on Linux now, then?



The normally unshakable VLC failed, but mplayer opened after a
pause, reporting:

==========================================================================
Forced audio codec: mad
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07% (ratio: 16002->176400)
Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg))
==========================================================================


Chill FM and Classic FM had identical results


So a *bit* temperemental, but certainly not impossible. P4 dual core, 4Gb
memory, onboard sound, Mint 3.1
.

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