Why does the stream sometimes stop or stutter?
Technical background: The amount of information that can travel from any one place to another in a unit of time on the internet is limited. Audio and video on the web is much more information intensive than, say, text only web pages. That is to say, audio and video require high bandwidth. The technologies which handle audio and video for the web are designed to compress the bandwidth needed. This can mean reduction in quality compared to other means of delivering audio and video. Audio and video streams are also buffered. Buffering helps to even out variations in bandwidth capacity between the computer sending out the audio or video and the computer receiving it. Buffering cannot guarantee to even out these variations all the time. This means that sometimes you may find there are breaks in the audio or video you are accessing. If you’re having problems: If you frequently encounter audio or video streams stopping and re-starting, try listening at another time of day, as your experience
Audio technology on the Internet is still relatively new. The amount of information that can travel along the average telephone line is limited. This can cause a queue in the audio signal. Current streaming technology makes best efforts not to lose this information and holds or buffers it until the line is clear to receive further information. This is why there is sometimes a stuttering or delaying effect when receiving a stream.
The amount of information that can travel along the average telephone line is limited. This can cause a queue in the audio signal. Current streaming technology makes best efforts not to lose this information and holds or ‘buffers’ it until the line is clear to receive further information. This is why there is sometimes a stuttering or delaying effect when receiving a stream. If you are on a very slow connection you might not be able to hear/see the stream at all. There is a minimum requirement for Audio/Video depending on the setting when the stream is encoded.
