Re: Woes with RealPlayer ???

[Peter Pletcher <peterp@bmrc.berkeley.edu>]

What we're seeing here is a cascade of RealServer problems.  I fixed the
low bitrate problem last night and upgraded the server to the latest
release (at the suggestion of tech support).  This caused a licensing
problem and it currently lets only 10 clients connect!  They should have
warned me.

Got a new license from them and will install it tonight after classes
are encoded, until then all you can do is keep trying to connect.  But
you should be able to get 200 kbits on all BIBS streams.  Also check
that you're getting the streams via UDP - the low bitrate problem can be
caused by an HTTP connection.

My home DSL connection (pacbell.net) works great for UDP but I wish they
would support multicast.

Larry, I can't resist mentioning that if I were running a *nix
RealServer I could have fixed the original (server mount point) problem
in 30 seconds.  I recommend we target this change for the summer.

Denis DeLaRoca wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Denis DeLaRoca wrote:
> 
> > Next, I noticed that I was able to play archived sessions at only 34
> > Kbit/s... strange? So earlier in the day, I tried establishing sessions to
> > BMRC from School and over Calren-2... got same results, 34 Kbit/s
> > sessions. This would seem to indicate that your server has been
> > reconfigured and is not delivering higher bit-rate sessions, ie., the
> > usual 200 Kbit/s that I used to get. What is going on?
> 
> My problem at home over DSL was due to my "progressive" provider trying to
> do good by customers by enabling an edge Streaming caching server which of
> course isn't quite working yet... while they upgrade/fix it they are going
> to shut it off.
> 
> As for the 34 vrs 200 Kbit/s sessions with BMRC, late last night I was
> actually able to get but not mantain 200 Kbit/s sessions... they quickly
> downgraded to 34 Kbit/s. I am trying to test right now from UCLA but your
> servers are running at maximum licensed sessions -- must be a very popular
> class that you are broadcasting!
> 
> -- Denis

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