[Fwd: Re: [PD-announce] multi-encoding capability for mp3write~ and shoutcast~]

[Yves Degoyon]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PD-announce] multi-encoding capability for mp3write~ and 
shoutcast~
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:15:55 +0200
From: Yves Degoyon <ydegoyon at free.fr>
To: Olaf Matthes <olaf.matthes at gmx.de>
References: <3D6F8319.4080209 at free.fr> <3D6FB269.4B089DA8 at gmx.de>

hi,

Olaf Matthes wrote:

 >Hi Yves,
 >
 >well, now we have another problem with 'version nameclashes'...
 >Searching through my sent mails I found that I released a 0.2 version of
 >shoutcast~ on 24th of january this year.
 >
we've got branches now that's right --
that's why i indicated this applied to my sole objects.

+ due to the lack of time,
i cannot merge the codes now

 >
 >Your release, Yves, is based on very old shoutcast~ code. In the
 >meantime I got a lot of feedback from people having trouble with crashes
 >and also experienced this problems in my own projects involving
 >shoutcast~. Thus I release version 0.3 (in july) which uses
 >multithreading to avoid audio dropouts (beneath other improvements).
 >
i don't have much crashes with my version -- we performed live already
and we will do it again on the September, 11th !! ( urls from
www.noweb.org ).

 >
 >
 >I think we should somehow label our code to point out that your
 >shoutcast~ 0.2 is different from my shoutcast~ 0.2. Anyway, I would like
 >to include your latest enhancement into shoutcast~ 0.3...
 >
feel free to do so.

 >
 >
 >BTW, because of many many crashes and other problems with shoutamp~ I'm
 >currently working on shoutamp~ 0.5. It will use a completely new buffer
 >management. - Just to inform you and to a void another 'versionclash'
 >;-)
 >
i experience these crashes too but since they are located in lame's
internal algorithms,
i wish you good luck to find a solution.

+ i didn't like the pre-buffering concept, to behave like xmms,
i want to make fast cuts and don't want no delay.

 >
 >
 >Olaf
 >
 >
 >PS: multiple encoders always worked in win.
 >
best,

sevy/yves