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« Reply #25 on: August 23, 2006, 01:31:50 PM »
Super simple...  :D

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« Reply #26 on: August 23, 2006, 08:11:31 PM »
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« Reply #27 on: August 26, 2006, 12:08:47 AM »
Just an update to say that I replaced the flashlight radio with that Emerson RP1103 from Wal-Mart.

Thought the reception might be a bit better and wanted a corded radio. Interestingly, I had to setup the feed for stereo to get it working right... which uses just a bit more bandwidth.

I also had to remove the antenna that came with the radio and replace it with one I made to increase reception.

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« Reply #28 on: August 26, 2006, 09:47:08 AM »
Carterlake, I see your bitrate is 32, if you're concerned about bandwidth, couldn't you drop that down to 16?

As an aside, I thought I'd try a bitrate of 8 to cut bandwidth, it sounded like crap...

I too ended up using the Emerson radio from Walmart...

Some times oddcast shows up to 10% or so cpu, then will drop down to 2-3%...
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« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2006, 09:54:41 AM »
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Carterlake, I see your bitrate is 32, if you're concerned about bandwidth, couldn't you drop that down to 16?

As an aside, I thought I'd try a bitrate of 8 to cut bandwidth, it sounded like crap...

I too ended up using the Emerson radio from Walmart...

Some times oddcast shows up to 10% or so cpu, then will drop down to 2-3%...


It sounded horrible at 16, but then, I'm not really concerned about the extra bandwidth so I'll just leave it at 32.

My oddcast only hits 5% at most... but I think that is dependent on the power of the system.

I think one thing they should add to the instructions is to put the oddcast player in your startup and click "auto connect", that way if your computer restarts, the stream auto restarts as well.

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« Reply #30 on: August 30, 2006, 09:45:50 AM »
Anybody having a problem having there oddcastv3standalone.log file filling up quickly with data? I'm finding this file under C:\Program Files\OddcastV3 and was curious if anybody is seeing this? If so, how do you disable this log file from writing data. I really didnt see any settings in the configuration on how to do it? This file filled up with almost 2 Gigs of data over the past week.  :shock:

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« Reply #31 on: August 30, 2006, 10:51:33 AM »
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Anybody having a problem having there oddcastv3standalone.log file filling up quickly with data? I'm finding this file under C:\Program Files\OddcastV3 and was curious if anybody is seeing this? If so, how do you disable this log file from writing data. I really didnt see any settings in the configuration on how to do it? This file filled up with almost 2 Gigs of data over the past week.  :shock:


After months of running, mine is only 25KB in size.

Did you look in the file to see what it is dumping in to the file?

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« Reply #32 on: August 30, 2006, 05:18:09 PM »
Mine's 9MB in size, and contains an entry every 5 seconds!!

08/23/06 20:03:22 Info(MainWindow.cpp:700): 16 Kbps (/ncpilot/wilmington.mp3)
08/23/06 20:03:27 Info(MainWindow.cpp:700): 15 Kbps (/ncpilot/wilmington.mp3)
08/23/06 20:03:32 Info(MainWindow.cpp:700): 16 Kbps (/ncpilot/wilmington.mp3)
08/23/06 20:03:37 Info(MainWindow.cpp:700): 15 Kbps (/ncpilot/wilmington.mp3)
08/23/06 20:03:42 Info(MainWindow.cpp:700): 16 Kbps (/ncpilot/wilmington.mp3)
08/23/06 20:03:47 Info(MainWindow.cpp:700): 15 Kbps (/ncpilot/wilmington.mp3)
08/23/06 20:03:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:700): 16 Kbps (/ncpilot/wilmington.mp3)
08/23/06 20:03:57 Info(MainWindow.cpp:700): 15 Kbps (/ncpilot/wilmington.mp3)
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« Reply #33 on: August 30, 2006, 05:20:37 PM »
Right click on your stream configuration in the encoder box, then select "configure", "advanced settings" tab...

There's an option for logging--log level, and file name...

I'll bet that's the key...

From help:

Log Level
This is for debugging oddcast, 1 = debug, 4 = error.  * for advanced uses only


Log File
If no log file is specified, then no log file will be produced.
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« Reply #34 on: August 30, 2006, 11:06:38 PM »
Heres what my file says....

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08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Line-In
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Microphone
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from PC Speaker
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Wave
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Line-In
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Microphone
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from PC Speaker
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Wave
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Line-In
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Microphone
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from PC Speaker
08/30/06 15:38:52 Info(MainWindow.cpp:684): Recording from Wave


In just over 2 hours its already 32MB.. :shock:  :shock:

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« Reply #35 on: August 30, 2006, 11:27:24 PM »
What's your "log level" in the options page?
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« Reply #36 on: August 30, 2006, 11:50:45 PM »
Set for 4

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« Reply #37 on: August 31, 2006, 08:31:49 AM »
I think mine was set to 1...

Just delete the file name/location in the options page, and it won't log anymore...
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« Reply #38 on: September 04, 2006, 11:09:05 PM »
Earlier this evening, oddcast was running an average of 12-15% of my cpu (AMD Athlon 64 3000+). I closed it down for a few hours, started it back up, and now it's running at about 3% or less...

Is it possible that this program somehow uses more cpu the longer it runs uninterrupted?

(Edit at 11:39pm EDT)

Now oddcast is using 13-18% cpu... something just isn't right...
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« Reply #39 on: September 05, 2006, 07:52:47 AM »
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Earlier this evening, oddcast was running an average of 12-15% of my cpu (AMD Athlon 64 3000+). I closed it down for a few hours, started it back up, and now it's running at about 3% or less...

Is it possible that this program somehow uses more cpu the longer it runs uninterrupted?

(Edit at 11:39pm EDT)

Now oddcast is using 13-18% cpu... something just isn't right...


Which version are you using?

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« Reply #40 on: September 05, 2006, 08:53:16 AM »
I'll have to check when I get home, but it should be the latest one--I got it directly off the website linked in the WU installation instructions.

The one thing I need to double check though is my version of Lame--I already had it installed on my PC, can't remember if I downloaded the latest version or not...
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« Reply #41 on: September 05, 2006, 12:04:15 PM »
How real-time are these audio streams, are they buffered for a few seconds or minutes ?
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« Reply #42 on: September 05, 2006, 12:16:59 PM »
I'm still having a problem with the oddcastv3standalone.log file filling up when I have everything disabled. When I right click on the encoder settings and hit configure and go to advanced settings the log level is set to 0. I also removed the file name in the log file and it still continues to rapidly fill up on the oddcastv3standalone.log file. Not sure what to do. Any other ideas out there?  :?:

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« Reply #43 on: September 05, 2006, 12:17:51 PM »
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How real-time are these audio streams, are they buffered for a few seconds or minutes ?


They seem to real-time. I don't think there is much of a delay. Maybe a few seconds.

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« Reply #44 on: September 05, 2006, 12:35:05 PM »
My oddcast is V3, build Aug 7, 2006...

Lame appears to be the most current version...

capeweather--after making the changes, did you exit the program, then delete all the log files, then start it back up? Try that...
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« Reply #45 on: September 05, 2006, 12:48:47 PM »
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My oddcast is V3, build Aug 7, 2006...

Lame appears to be the most current version...

capeweather--after making the changes, did you exit the program, then delete all the log files, then start it back up? Try that...


I have the same version as well. Also, I restarted again and still have the same symptoms. It keeps writing to the same oddcastv3standalone.log file.  :(

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« Reply #46 on: September 05, 2006, 02:00:44 PM »
Any chance you've got more than one instance of oddcast running, or multiple oddcast processes? Have you rebooted recently?
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« Reply #47 on: September 05, 2006, 02:05:36 PM »
Yes, I actually had to reboot yesterday because I had to resite my towers to a different location. As far as having more than one instance running, that appears fine. Only one.

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« Reply #48 on: September 05, 2006, 07:21:53 PM »
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My oddcast is V3, build Aug 7, 2006...

Lame appears to be the most current version...

capeweather--after making the changes, did you exit the program, then delete all the log files, then start it back up? Try that...


There's a bug in that version....

You want: http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv3/oddcastv3_standalone_3.1.12.exe

Aug 25 version.

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« Reply #49 on: September 05, 2006, 07:26:31 PM »
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How real-time are these audio streams, are they buffered for a few seconds or minutes ?


They are buffered... the buffering varies, I've noticed informally that it can be as low as a few seconds and as high as 20-30 seconds.

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