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Windows Server Forum / Windows Media Server / December 2003live broadcast buffering
We configured windows media services 9 on Windows 2003 server for live audio broadcast. The audio from the encoder is being transmitted at 64 Kb. Listeners are experiencing excessive buffering. How can we overcome this buffering issue. Can we limit the audio's Kb rate? thanks, Khalid Khalid, If your customers are using dial-up at 56kbps and your audio stream is 64kbps, you will see buffering as the bandwidth will be too much for dialup to handle. Your encoding app needs to stream down at a lower bit rate to match your target customers bandwidth (say at 32 or 48kbps). Or if you have a mix of users using Broadband (like DSL) and dial-up, then you can use the Multiple Bit rate encoding feature of the Series 9 encoder (NOTE: Multiple bit rate audio is only supported for users listening on Windows Media Player 9 , I suppose). Please check the encoder documentation to know more about Multiple bitrate encoding. Hope this helps. Ravi -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights >-----Original Message----- >Khalid, [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >-- >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Ravi, Thank you for the info but it doesn't really solve my issue. I have no control over the encoder but I have control over the windows media services, server. Is there any way for me to control the bit rate from the server side? Thanks, Khalid I don't know if there is any app that can take a 64kbps stream live and encode it at a lower bitrate (to say 32kbps) and then stream it like an encoder would do. If there is such an app, then you can use that app and use the server along with it. The server does not "transcode" to a lower bit rate stream by itself. If there are multiple bit rate streams, it will be able to select the right bitrate (among the available bitrates) that can be sent to the client. Other than this, I don't have any other ideas on how to get this done. Hope someone else in this list can help you with this. Thx, Ravi -- This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights I've done this by using a server connecting to the windows media 64k stream with windows media player, playing it then reencoding it at a lower bit rate with windows media encoder and publishing it to the local windows media services. Nasty! But it works!! :) Brian. http://www.powerfm.org > I don't know if there is any app that can take a 64kbps stream live and > encode it at a lower bitrate (to say 32kbps) and then stream it like an [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > -- > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. |
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