Hi hermann,
Yesterday and today I've tested again, and I discovered a strange phenomenon: While RB tries to play the stream, the following line appears when I type: ps aux hermann 6865 0.0 0.5 3920 1376 ? S 10:47 0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q -t 0 -O /dev/null -w 2 http://localhost:20433 When I kill Orca, the line has gone, the same when I kill RB. When I kill wget, Orca is gone too. What has wget to do with all that, and why does it connect to localhost:20433, the port Orca uses when acting as local TTS server?
This is the Orca watchdog. You can find the following comment in the /usr/bin/orca bash shell script: # The watchdog will periodically ping Orca to see if it is responding. # If orca isn't responding, the watchdog will kill the Orca process. # The watchdog logic requires 'wget' ... You kill Orca, and the Orca script will automatically stop the watchdog. This is nothing to do with TTS.