Re: [dev-serveez] experience with "icecast" server

[Raimund 'Raimi' Jacob]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, stefan wrote:

greetinx,

> > i am running that server all day with mixed success: xmms does not play
> > anything but segfaults. that's probably not serveez' fault.
> > 
> > mpg123 plays nicely... but:
> > ---
> > Directory: http://localhost:8000/
> > Playing MPEG stream from  ...
> > MPEG 1.0 layer III, 128 kbit/s, 44100 Hz stereo
> > Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x4b800000 at offset 0xfffffffb.
> > Skipped 409 bytes in input.
> > Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x5441476d at offset 0xfffffffb.
> > Skipped ID3 Tag!
> > Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x79207363 at offset 0xfffffffb.
> > Skipped 280 bytes in input.
> > ---
> > between each file it has to skip the id3 tag and/or some other garbage i
> > dont know the source of. this works most of the time but sometimes it
> > fails to revover:
> > ---
> > Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x6f747573 at offset 0xfffffffb.
> > Skipped 5988866 bytes in input.
> > big_values too large!
> > Blocktype == 0 and window-switching == 1 not allowed.
> > ---
> > ...and terminates.

> The 'Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x6f747573 at offset 0xfffffffb.' error
> sounds strange because it suggest that mpg123 seeks backward (offset
> 0xfffffffb) in the mp3 stream.  Comments on this?

yes. mpeg is a bitstream and sometimes the stream has to be
rewinded. mpg123 sometimes displays errormessages like "cannot rewind
stream by XXX bit". nothing unusual...

(but hey, what do _I_ know about mpeg)

> Raimund:  Could you please retry the current CVS version for the test and
> tell how it is working now?

stress test tomorrow.

Bye,
    Raimi

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