[vlc-devel] Re: Shoutcast problem in VLC 0.5.1

[Sigmund Augdal]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:11:54PM +0100, Stepan Roh wrote:
> Sorry, I'm stupid. My cable is currently too slow to play that. However
> there is another problem when I try low-bandwidth streams (<56 kbps) it
> only gives a lot of
> 
> mpgatofixed32 audio output warning: libmad error: bad main_data_begin
> pointer
> 
> and audio is choppy (only strange sounds). XMMS plays it well. Is that a
> bug in libmad (I have 0.14.2b)?
This can be worked around by increasing the http cache, run with
--http-caching=500 or set it in the preferences dialog. Hope this helps.

Sigmund

> 
> Have a nice day.
> 
> Stepan Roh
> 
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Stepan Roh wrote:
> 
> > I tried to play some streams from www.shoutcast.com and ran into following
> > problems:
> >
> > 1. VLC does not support *.pls files so I downloaded them manually and took
> > URLs from them
> >
> > 2. it plays for a while (depends on access_http caching value) and then
> > writes:
> >
> > mpgatofixed32 audio output warning: libmad error: bad main_data_begin
> > pointer
> > mpgatofixed32 audio output warning: libmad error: bad main_data_begin
> > pointer
> >
> > after that either this is repeated forever (no sound plays):
> >
> > main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (_some_number_here_),
> > dropping buffer
> >
> > or this is written (input is closed after that):
> >
> > audio input warning: cannot read data
> > audio input debug: cannot find next frame (EOF ?)
> > main input: EOF reached
> >
> > Why does that happen? Thanks. I can send more info, just ask.
> >
> > Have a nice day.
> >
> > Stepan Roh
> >
> >
> 
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