• Registered: 2008-03-17
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Stuttering/dropping playback over wireless

Hi,

Great program and great work!

I have been using Cog for quite some time but recently I have had a problem with stuttering/dropping playback when Cog, on my Macbook pro, is playing back files (flac) that reside on my macmini (actually on firewire drives connected to my macmini) using an airport extreme (and recently a Time Capsule) g network. The macmini is wired. The Macbook pro is wireless.

This is a relatively new problem but I cannot place it amongst all the various changes/upgrades (eg. leopard etc) I have made recently. I'm not even sure this is a Cog issue; it may be more of a networking issue.

Any suggestions on things to check Cog-wise (or even network-wise) to mitigate this problem?

BG

  • Registered: 2007-07-08
  • Posts: 790

Re: Stuttering/dropping playback over wireless

It's likely a network problem. Cog uses about 2mb of for buffers. That's a bit more than 10 seconds of raw 44100 32bps audio. With a high performance codec like flac, the CPU is probably not the bottleneck. It's likely the network. I myself had experienced stuttering problems a while ago, and it ended up being a bad ethernet cable.

  • Registered: 2008-03-17
  • Posts: 2

Re: Stuttering/dropping playback over wireless

Thanks for the reply. I am off the check the rats nest of cables behind the macmini!

BG