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Media Streaming Almost Dead Since Update

Gillian Waldman
Buttercup
Join date: 1 Oct 2006
Posts: 697
04-26-2007 15:22
Streams are dying every few seconds to minutes...so yeah, that seems broken now too (along with the most messed up Group IMs ever LOL). Anyone else hearing (or not hearing) this?
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Wilhelm Neumann
Runs with Crayons
Join date: 20 Apr 2006
Posts: 2,204
04-26-2007 15:37
that sounds like lag as media streaming is actually pretty simple in concept in SL. If the sound comes back and is disjointed your suffering from lag and nothing is broken. Also no I was watching a cheesy movie last night to see if i would crash and noticed nothing wrong. I was busy trying to crash the viewer or see if it would crash as the previous version had me crashing every few minutes due to a compatibility issue with my dual core processor and graphical issues with my graphics card. No crashes, the movie ran and i sat there watching it no gaps or anything just the sound and the movie hehe
Gillian Waldman
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Join date: 1 Oct 2006
Posts: 697
04-26-2007 15:39
Yeah, except I am not lagging. It's odd really. Might be sim specific though.
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Darien Caldwell
Registered User
Join date: 12 Oct 2006
Posts: 3,127
04-26-2007 15:57
Was streaming audio and video last night without issue.
AWM Mars
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Join date: 10 Apr 2004
Posts: 3,398
04-27-2007 07:46
Media lag can be attributed to 2 main things.

1) The delivery server/host can lag, or not have sufficient bandwidth to multicast to each listener.
2) Client settings are not correct, and SL is taking up to many system resources, such as bandwidth and or cpu cycles.

There is a 3rd, which is relevant only to non-streamed content.. the media isn't prepared correctly, or is lagging.

Media lag has little if anything to do with LL servers... they only broadcast the set url to each avatar.
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Gillian Waldman
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04-27-2007 07:47
Thanks - no real issues on my home sim so perhaps it was the couple places I was at yesterday :D
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