Minimum requirements for broadcasting??

spoier · 4th July 2001, 04:18

Hello,

I'm trying to "be a DJ" from my Pentium 100 (133 w/ overclock), 56k USR modem and SB PCI128. Yes, I know its old, so don't be a jerk.

When I start the stream up to the shoutcast server, after about 8-10 seconds its starts to get really choppy and the "bytes sent" slows to a crawl. The modem lights are barely on. Running system monitor, the CPU is almost totally idle! WinAMP will continue like this for a while and then stop responding completely. All other applications running react just fine, its only WinAMP that is frozen.

I'm running the most recent winamp, netshow, and dsp plugins. I also tried winamp 2.5c w/ dsp 1.5.0b2 with exactly the same results. All on 100% clean winamp installations.

I've tried enabling & disabling advanced mode in DSP (using linerec:// when disabled), same problem. I removed all low-level drivers (ie totalrecorder) from my machine too.

I get this problem even if I broadcast at the absolute lowest level (1 kbps).

What the hell is going on??? I swear I had this working a couple of years ago. Would a crappy ISP receive rate cause this behaviour?

Thanks for your help

Skye

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4th July 2001, 04:18	#1
spoier Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 1	Hello, I'm trying to "be a DJ" from my Pentium 100 (133 w/ overclock), 56k USR modem and SB PCI128. Yes, I know its old, so don't be a jerk. When I start the stream up to the shoutcast server, after about 8-10 seconds its starts to get really choppy and the "bytes sent" slows to a crawl. The modem lights are barely on. Running system monitor, the CPU is almost totally idle! WinAMP will continue like this for a while and then stop responding completely. All other applications running react just fine, its only WinAMP that is frozen. I'm running the most recent winamp, netshow, and dsp plugins. I also tried winamp 2.5c w/ dsp 1.5.0b2 with exactly the same results. All on 100% clean winamp installations. I've tried enabling & disabling advanced mode in DSP (using linerec:// when disabled), same problem. I removed all low-level drivers (ie totalrecorder) from my machine too. I get this problem even if I broadcast at the absolute lowest level (1 kbps). What the hell is going on??? I swear I had this working a couple of years ago. Would a crappy ISP receive rate cause this behaviour? Thanks for your help Skye