Matt Wilson
3rd July 2003, 17:12
A couple of observations.. noone has to read them, but I'm making them.
Cable users... I've had little trouble broadcasting with the following details:
Resolution: 200x150
Max Users: 5
Video Bitrate: 65
Audio Bitrate: 32
The weird thing is, NSV resizing doesn't work right. It just doesn't. I tell the encoder to high-quality resize to 200x150, and yet files turn out with resolutions like 208x160. There has to be a way to resize it to exactly what I want.
NSV Playlists do work through the ZIP file method, but it's VERY VERY GLITCHY. For example, Shoutcast plays an NSV ZIP in the order you placed files into the zip file, NOT BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
Also.
NSV ZIPs apparently confuse Shoutcast at times, because it skips files.
I don't know if it has to do with the files being encoded differently (as far as I know, that's not the problem), or if NSVscSrc is just being weird and stupid.
I have it set up like this (names changed):
lineup.nsv (programming lineup)
aepisode1.nsv
aepisode2.nsv
aepisode3.nsv
middle1.nsv (mid-hour commercial)
zepisode4.nsv
zepisode8.nsv
break.nsv (commercial break)
Results:
The stream skips over aepisode2.nsv and aepisode3.nsv. Then it skips over zepisode4 and zepisode8.
I'm baffled as to how this works. It seems every NSV zip file has skipped files. It's almost always the episodes.
I guess files in an NSV zip file are all supposed to be exactly the same resolution and encode settings, but considering the NSV resizer doesn't work properly, this will take some time.
Anyway, NSV is great. Once this gets ironed out, I'll be set.
Cable users... I've had little trouble broadcasting with the following details:
Resolution: 200x150
Max Users: 5
Video Bitrate: 65
Audio Bitrate: 32
The weird thing is, NSV resizing doesn't work right. It just doesn't. I tell the encoder to high-quality resize to 200x150, and yet files turn out with resolutions like 208x160. There has to be a way to resize it to exactly what I want.
NSV Playlists do work through the ZIP file method, but it's VERY VERY GLITCHY. For example, Shoutcast plays an NSV ZIP in the order you placed files into the zip file, NOT BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
Also.
NSV ZIPs apparently confuse Shoutcast at times, because it skips files.
I don't know if it has to do with the files being encoded differently (as far as I know, that's not the problem), or if NSVscSrc is just being weird and stupid.
I have it set up like this (names changed):
lineup.nsv (programming lineup)
aepisode1.nsv
aepisode2.nsv
aepisode3.nsv
middle1.nsv (mid-hour commercial)
zepisode4.nsv
zepisode8.nsv
break.nsv (commercial break)
Results:
The stream skips over aepisode2.nsv and aepisode3.nsv. Then it skips over zepisode4 and zepisode8.
I'm baffled as to how this works. It seems every NSV zip file has skipped files. It's almost always the episodes.
I guess files in an NSV zip file are all supposed to be exactly the same resolution and encode settings, but considering the NSV resizer doesn't work properly, this will take some time.
Anyway, NSV is great. Once this gets ironed out, I'll be set.