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Hi Leif!
BA Live sounds amazing! We buyed it immediately – after one day testing 🙂
Well, I do have one, maybe two bugs for you…
1st:
As we already discussed by e-mail, the title streaming option (encoders) does not work.2nd:
I have to run BA Live with the smallest buffer options possible. The reason for that is that we play also videoclips on the same system. Larger buffer = Video/Audio offset. Looks ugly 🙂
I choosed the same buffer options as I used it in BA Audio Enhancer. This works fine for some hours, then it starts crackle.
Sometimes it sounds a bit like radio crackles, sometimes bad fractional. I don’t think that it’s a problem of the computer system – after a restart of BA Live (not PC!) it runs smooth again. We do use an onboard soundcard – I know, it’s not an optimal choice, but it works fine till now 🙂Buffer settings:
In: 120/2 (Pipeline)
Out: 480/3 (Soundcard out)Regards from cheesy Switzerland,
RetoMe again 🙂
I like to test the system with a ASIO 2.0 USB Soundcard (MAYA 44 USB). But I don’t know how to use the Pipeline IN and the ASIO OUT… Shouldn’t this be possible?
Cheers
RetoI’ll have to look into the title streaming with shoutcast, and figure out why the way I’m piping in the titles isn’t working.
ASIO + Pipeline is actually not possible – the ASIO audio engine is a completely different "circuit", self contained and slimmed down to be extremely low latency, so it does not contain sample rate converters or buffers which would be required to use other audio devices.
Try 120/3 for the pipeline instead of /2. That may take care of the problem. 2 is generally not safe (i’ve never seen a system where this was stable on), but 3 might be.
Best regards,
///LeifHey Leif,
Was having the same problem with BA Live, but I solved it with VAC 3.12 (you might remember me mentioning this a while ago), and it’s been fine since. Also it’s recently started with BA Personal, but of course, I have no option but to use the Breakaway Pipeline with that one. If I use that DPC Latency Checker program to check the latency (or open any program that uses audio), the problem is gone until I close it, so I’m unable to see what the latency goes to. To fix it, I have to reopen BA Personal (or set the Input buffer size to a much much higher value). Same problem exists on two different computers (BA Live for the Internet station computer, and BA Personal for the other computer).
I’m happy to use BA Live the way it is, as there’s no difference in audio between VAC 3.12 & 4.08 is there (no soundcard being used…all digital)?
But with BA Personal, it can be a little annoying.Anyway, I don’t know if the cause of my problem is the same as buffalos. If not, it could be off topic (in my case it’s more of a stuttering sound than crackling).
[quote author=”buffalos”]1st:
As we already discussed by e-mail, the title streaming option (encoders) does not work.[/quote]
Leif,
FYI: Title streaming works great with Edcast.[quote author=”sneradio”][quote author=”buffalos”]1st:
As we already discussed by e-mail, the title streaming option (encoders) does not work.[/quote]
Leif,
FYI: Title streaming works great with Edcast.[/quote]EdCast is compliant with Winamp SDK, and sounds great.
Shoutcast is not compliant, and sounds…. not great. 😆
[quote author=”sneradio”]
Leif,
FYI: Title streaming works great with Edcast.[/quote]I tried it with Shoutcast an Simplecast (Spacial Audio). Maybe you can force your LeifCast project, hehe 🙂
For title streaming to work from a program that isn’t Winamp, it has to support pulling from the Winamp title (if you’re even using winamp) or some some other method like pulling from a file, or a database. The former is how EdCast is able to have titles from a different host.
Alright, I spent a few hours trying to track down the issue, and I’m none the wiser.
In fact, it seems that just looking at shoutcast the wrong way makes it drop title streaming. In fact, just a simple dsp muxer is enough to make it fail even when loaded from Winamp.
Since I’ve managed to reproduce it that easily, I’ve posted in the winamp developer forum — let’s hope someone knows the answer. I am stumped.
///Leif
Hi Leif!
We are streaming with EdCast now – works great!
Sometimes we do have something sounds like sample repeating for 2-5 seconds and then everything works fine again.
I can not detect exactly what’s the reason – all I can say is that I haven’t the problems in ASIO mode and that CPU load/RAM is ok.Regards,
Reto
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