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Hi
I run an online radio station and edcast keeps dropping in and out. It worked well for years and all of a sudden in the last 9 months it has started behaving erratically. The signal just disappears momentarily and it reconnects to the server. Ten times in the first two minutes of one show.
As I said no problems at all and I am not doing anything differently than I have done ion the -previous 6 years but it is so frustrating. The signal sounds like it is skippingAny Ideas
I recommend altacast. It's edcast cleaned up and improved. http://www.altacast.com/index.php/downloads/
If nothing has changed with the software, and nothing in your hardware, the only other grey area would be your ISP (internet provider). Is the modem failing? Can you do some speed tests on your link and see if it is dropping below the point that edcast can keep up? Maybe you need to speak to someone about increasing your transfer speed.
The ISP is fine and the broadband is fine and up to speed. It goes for weeks without any problem but when there is a problem it is always the same problem it just starts to drop the signal on edcast.
One big problem with Odd/Ed/Alta is the outgoing data isn't buffered beyond Windows itself. If there's any considerable latency at all, and data isn't able to be sent immediately, instead of simply buffering the data to be sent, it won't encode new audio coming into the plugin. That's what can cause the skipping even if it's not reconnecting.
The encoder in BreakawayOne buffers the outgoing data and will send it when it's able to, with no skips in the audio. It will only reconnect if there are much more serious issues with the connection.
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