tenthirtyone
Member
I had the problem of my feed being dropped almost daily for unknown reasons.
I was using two primary streaming machines - both of which had a Pentium dual-core processor at around 2 Ghz and a minimum of 2 GB of RAM. Not barn burners but ScannerCast is pretty light. The machines just sat in the basement and did some local file serving (mostly MP3s) but were not used for video streaming or other high-demand applications. I alternated between the two trying to find the reason for my dropped feed. I have essentially a static IP (it is not) due to using the cable company's phone service. I noticed my IP would change occasionally - but it was every 4 months or so if at all.
Then I noticed when I was around the displays for the machines and they were not sleeping the CPU meter in the task bar would sometimes spike and hang at 100% - same during some Remote Desktop sessions. Anyhoo the offending process was "avgnsx.exe".
I don't profess to be an expert at any of this - but some research led me to believe that this process was part of AVG's "link-scanner" protection. So I disabled the "link scanner" feature and experienced no more ScannerCast / Icecast drop outs. I have since switched to Microsoft Security Essentials (free) and have been running smooth since.
I switched to AVG years ago when I felt that Norton had gotten too big and bloated. AVG used to be a nice, light, free application. Apparently it to has gotten too bloated to run reasonably well on an "older" machine.
Food for thought.
YMMV.
I was using two primary streaming machines - both of which had a Pentium dual-core processor at around 2 Ghz and a minimum of 2 GB of RAM. Not barn burners but ScannerCast is pretty light. The machines just sat in the basement and did some local file serving (mostly MP3s) but were not used for video streaming or other high-demand applications. I alternated between the two trying to find the reason for my dropped feed. I have essentially a static IP (it is not) due to using the cable company's phone service. I noticed my IP would change occasionally - but it was every 4 months or so if at all.
Then I noticed when I was around the displays for the machines and they were not sleeping the CPU meter in the task bar would sometimes spike and hang at 100% - same during some Remote Desktop sessions. Anyhoo the offending process was "avgnsx.exe".
I don't profess to be an expert at any of this - but some research led me to believe that this process was part of AVG's "link-scanner" protection. So I disabled the "link scanner" feature and experienced no more ScannerCast / Icecast drop outs. I have since switched to Microsoft Security Essentials (free) and have been running smooth since.
I switched to AVG years ago when I felt that Norton had gotten too big and bloated. AVG used to be a nice, light, free application. Apparently it to has gotten too bloated to run reasonably well on an "older" machine.
Food for thought.
YMMV.