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raynman is offline raynman
2008-01-20 , 02:31
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#56
Originally Posted by raynman View Post
For those of you who are streaming mp3s with Webot, what's the average buffer time until it starts playing? I see one user reports 4 minutes. Maybe I just didn't wait long enough, but if 4 minutes is average, I see less use in this application. When I select a song, it scrolls "LOADING..." and that's all it does.

I also tested it on the Webot host PC, and it plays songs fine. The N800 is on the same network (no firewall/router between devices). I'm running OS2008.
I think it was caused by multiple network interfaces on my Bot PC. I noticed in the WeBot config page that my Bot had a strange IP. This was one of my VMWare VMs. I disabled that interface and restarted the Bot, then it grabbed my VPN one. I disabled that one, restarted the Bot and it grabbed my online X-drive IP. I disabled that, then it worked. Audio started streaming almost immediately (note that this is over a LAN). I'm not sure if it would've worked under any of those other interfaces, but I imagine I'll find out as soon as I need those interfaces back!

How about an option in the Bot software to choose an interface to listen on? Thanks!