also sprach martin f krafft <madd...@debian.org> [2010.02.02.1003 +1300]:
> System Using xmms2 on a flakey connection causes a lot of skips.
> I can mitigate these skips by inserting a buffering HTTP proxy
> (squid, nginx, …) into the flow, but I'd think that this (basic)
> functionality should be part of xmms2 itself. There is an
> output.buffer config item, so what's missing is input.buffer to
> define the size of a simple ring buffer which is filled and from
> which audio data is read.
> 
> That way I could configure xmms2 to allocate memory to bridge e.g.
> 10 seconds of network outage. That would make me a lot happier.

Thanks to Nigel McNie for suggesting to use poppler as a caching
proxy, which indeed does improve the situation.

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