James Stone wrote: >On Mon, 09 May 2005 17:08:02 -0400, M P Smoak wrote: > > > >>I've been listening to kcsm recently using alsaplayer. They have a 128k >>stream and a 64k mp3 stream. Both have sounded real good everytime till >>now. >> >>Right now the ogg stream is very distorted/corrupted. I sent them an >>email, but I'm still interested in what's causing this. >> >>I can bring up 2 instances of Alsaplayer and listen to first one stream >>and then the other. Alsaplayer reports the mp3 stream as 64k, but the >>streaming rate for the 128k stream varies, 110 to 230 rapidly. I never >>payed attention to the stream rate before but I know I've been using the >>ogg stream and I think I would have noticed this rapid variation. >> >>I running a recent PlanetCCRMA RH9 setup. >> >>Who's problem is it; theirs or Alsaplayers? >> >>Marv >> >> > >Dunno.. sounds fine to me. > >The changing bitrate is normal for ogg streams AFAIK. > > MP3 and OGG files can be encoded using what is called a variable bit rate (VBR), which is why you see the fluctuating values. Best, dp
