Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Buffer size for streaming

[Jan Schmidt <thaytan noraisin net>]

On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 00:45 +1100, James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:09 -0300, Manuel Corrales wrote:
> > Hi. I just want to say that the app is incredible and is much improved
> > in short time. I would like to know if is anyway of change the size of
> > the buffer it uses for streaming, because some streams  tends to have
> > cut. Is this handled by rhythmbox or is gstreamer? 
> 
> The buffer itself it handled by gstreamer (specifically playbin), but
> applications can change how big it is. Probably the best way would be if
> it dynamically adjusted depending on how often it reached the how-tide
> mark and how often it kept full.
> 
> It would probably be better if this was improved directly in playbin, so
> all apps would share it.

The buffering behaviour of playbin has recently been improved in
GStreamer - before it didn't work very well at all when starving - but I
don't think this has been in a release yet.

J.

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