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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Windows Buffering during playing Post 34902 by Perderabo on Thursday 20th of March 2003 11:06:16 AM

03-20-2003

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A few comments here... Streaming audio is not file oriented. You can't wait for the entire file to download. This is used, for example, by radio stations to "transmit" over the internet.

And playing software doesn't buffer as much as it can...it will typically buffer a few seconds worth. It could buffer minutes or hours worth, but that kind of delay would be annoying. I'm not thrilled with the 10 second delay I now have.

Last night I tried listening to some internet radio on my laptop via a 56k dialup. I connected at a real speed of 44kb and it was adequate provided that I didn't do anything else over the internet. 96kb divided among 25 users is not going to be enough bandwidth.

Some of the websites of some internet radio stations claimed that they could deliver a good signal even with a 28kb dialup. I could find no claim that less bandwidth might work.

I had better luck with internet radio stations on my continent. A couple of times European stations drained my buffer. I am guessing that this related to Internet congestion rather far from my laptop, but I have no way to prove that.

I would rather listen to my stereo anyway.

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NAME

       pls - list directory contents

SYNOPSIS

       pls [-a] [-R] [-d LEVEL] [-p DEVNAME] [-h] [DIRECTORY]

DESCRIPTION

       pls list the contents of a directory on a device connected through SynCE.

       Forward slashes ('/') on the command line are converted to backward slashes ('').

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       -p DEVNAME
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	      ter is omitted, the contents of the "My Documents" folder is listed.

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       synce(1) pcp(1) pls(1) prm(1) pmkdir(1) prmdir(1)

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