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Date:	Thu, 3 Jun 2004 11:49:37 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Lost That Streaming Feeling

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I guess this would be something more for Steve Schiffman or Mr. KIA.
This is from a post I just put on Dink's message board, since I got no
reply from a private email I sent him earlier. Just trying to
maximize the chances for a solution. If there is no solution, we
*may* have to scratch any possibility of including Z! in the upcoming
demo.

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Shoutcast used to work great for me with Z!, under Warp 4 and NS 4.61
+ sound driver for the AW320 card. When I went to implement this on a
small form factor box that has the built-in AC'97 chip, I'm finding
that the Z! window opens and closes in the blink of an eye. No crash
info, either.

I've been trying to track down the cause. At first, I though it might
be the fault of UNIAUD. (I'm not too impressed with this driver,
btw. Granted, the built in sound chip doesn't compare well with a
reasonably good sound card, but, somehow, Media Player 9 under W2K is
able to get much better sound out of the same hardware.) Then I
thought it could also be some (MMOS2 ?) difference between W4 and eCS
1.1.

However, when I go back to the tower box that had run Z! + Shoutcast
just fine for a long time, I'm now finding the same behavior. This
leads me to suspect something to do with the hardware firewall
device. It's been a while since I tried to play a Shoutcast stream.
Since that time, I have had to adjust some firewall settings.
RealPlayer streams will not work here unless they are restricted to
HTTP. I had to adjust some other settings (*lifting* restrictions, in
this case) in order to enable IRC.

Do you have any idea if I am on the right track, and what settings --
if any -- might be crashing the Z! window, before it even gets going ?

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I suppose the next test might be to reroute some ethernet wiring,
bypassing the firewall, and see if that makes any difference . . . ?

Jordan

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