Re: [Banshee-List] Buffering internet radio

[John Jason Jordan <johnxj comcast net>]

On Thu, 22 May 2014 08:55:52 +0200
Roderich Schupp <roderich schupp gmail com> dijo:

> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Moonbase <moonbase quantentunnel de>
> wrote:
> > Same here (Ubuntu studio 14.04; Banshee 2.6.2). Buffer builds up to
> > about 81%, jitters a lot, and slowly decreases to less and less
> > percent until it craps out.

> Banshee uses Gstreamer for all audio stuff (Audacious doesn't).
> In order to investigate whether the problem is more on the Gstreamer
> or on the Banshee side of things, can you try the following:
>
>   - install the Ubuntu package gstreamer1.0-tools if necessary
>   - find out the actual internet radio stream URL; note that most
> stations don't publish the stream itself, but rather a container URL,
> e.g. a .pls or .asx playlist; you have to look inside that file to
> find the stream URL
>   - open a terminal and run the command
>
>         gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=
>
> *stream-url *
>   - this should play the stream (for mor diagnostics, run the command
> with "-v")

Thanks for the response.

I have gstreamer.0.10-tools installed on my Xubuntu 13.10 and there is
no 1.0 version, so I assume that your 1.0 is just a typo.

The stream I am trying to play is
        rtsp://allclassical.streamguys.com:80/live/ac96k.stream
And I can only assume that it is not a container URL. If it is not,
please advise. Also, in case it is really a container, you say "you have
to look inside that file to find the stream URL," but I don't know how
to look inside it. Use a text editor? It's an URL, not a file, so how
do I open it in a text editor, or otherwise?

This stream was copied and pasted from other players where it works
fine, although it cuts out constantly because the other players do not
provide enough buffering. This is my interest in Audacious, because it
allows me to set the amount of buffering.