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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] broken windows needs replacing
  • Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:30:15 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

I wonder if there's a DOS cdrecord floating around somewhere?

There is, and it would not work on the CD-ROM burner which did not
work with linux cdrecord. Apart from that it was easy to setup and
worked fine for copying CDs. It is based on an older version (pre
kernel 2.6 linux).

I may need to add that to my todo list of things to compile. A newer
cdrecord.

Maybe you can compile it for DOS. There was, I think, something about kernels before 2.5.something that simply won't work with cdrecord and certain models of CD-ROM burner. Mine is a Samsung, burns at 4X (in DOS, anyway). So even compiling cdrecord, latest version, is not going to make it work with this burner unless one uses a later kernel than 2.2.16.
I posted to the list about this last year. Can you compile kernel 2.6 and modules with uClibC?


I have a 2X burner that works fine in linux, so it is not the age of the burner, just something about how they were made.

I haven't had any troubles with mpg123. As long as you don't outplay
your bandwidth, you should be fine.

Does it actually buffer somehow?

I don't usually need any for 32K stuff. I think the connection does
make a big difference.

I will try at a friend's house eventually. Don't really need internet radio enough to pay $7/month for a connection when I have one that works already for most things and our library has CDs I can now copy with BL2. But it has been very interesting trying this out and my neighbors may want to use it on their better connections.


Then you'd basically need to download first, then play.

With Realplayer it buffers for a minute ahead of the stream, then
starts to play, and there is much less choppiness. I have watched
the graph of the stream and some stations are nearly level and some
are roller coasters.

wget -O buffered.mp3 http://www.domain.com/mp3.mp3 &
# Wait 1 minute
mpg123 buffered.mp3

That's how you buffer it for a minute. Is there much choppiness?

I will check later - currently online with DOS (via local bbs). I have already tried something like this - I started to download a large MP3 file (128K) and I was able to play it before it finished. It stopped in the middle, of course. But to listen to something broadcast at 32K, on a connection that averages 20K (or less), I would need to download for 10 minutes and then listen for 20 while continuing to download, then start over again. On top of which I could not really use my internet connection for anything else at the same time.

Back when I had a paid ISP I could listen to Realaudio at 24K and still have half the bandwidth to read email in.

David
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Sindi




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