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Re: Reception Report: Multimedia Seminar 10/18/2000




> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Not good at all! I couldn't hold a single stream RealVideo session for
> more than 3-4 minutes before RealPlayer locking up in "buffering" state...
> this with RealPlayer v7.0 for Linux.
> 
> The Linux player appeared to get into some tight-loop and wouldn't respond
> to mouse clicks to activate its menus for well over a minute -- all the
> while chewing up CPU. 
> 
> Later, I tried RealPlayer v8.0 under Windows and got the same problem:
> single-stream RP sessions would freeze after about 3-4 minutes of perfect
> reception. So the symptons appear to point toward endemic problems with
> the RealVideo server...
> 

Yup, same thing here: several minutes okay, then the
buffering-cycle-of-doom begins.  I'm running RealPlayer 8 Basic,
Windows NT 4.0 SP6 on a Pentium III.  I don't think bandwidth is the problem
as I was receiving the 1.4 Mb/s multicast simultaneously on a different 
computer.

Greg Cook
cook@purdue.edu