Amethyst Preloading for Live listen buffering issues

[Leon van Heerden]

With Windows 7 & Mediaplayer 12 there is a delay in streaming from Amethyst Supervisor's Live listen. It can take up to 30 seconds before it starts streaming.

The Media player has to buffer enough audio to fill its buffers, before it starts playing. We have found since we use such a low bit stream, that it takes awhile for the buffer to fill. We have built a Pre-load facility into the cardserver and CRE to allow a predetermined number of seconds to be pre-loaded to the stream. This fills the buffer quickly and it starts streaming.

The setting is available from CRE 1.6.4.48 and in 1.6.2.69 of the cardserver.

The setting is in the general section:

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LIVELISTENPRELOAD=11

The optimal setting that we have found so far is 11 and it defaults to 0