07-Sep-2015, 21:43
(This post was last modified: 07-Sep-2015, 21:48 by Rufus McDufus.)
I'm not aware of anyone having issues with USB.
That's an intriguing idea that it could be non-audio network traffic hitting the Devialet's network interfaces and causing trouble. It would have to be fundamentally broken though for that to happen. I have seen computers affected badly by portscans (for instance), or flooded with traffic (e.g multicast) but a long time ago (i.e 80s, 90s, early 2000s when network interfaces/kernels weren't so robust).
Devialet themselves recently suggested they thought the problem was due to timers on the OS and bugs/inadequacies of the ones they'd been using (or are available for use). I found this idea a little odd myself. They're not the only company streaming audio and I doubt they're doing much that's radically different. There does seem to me to be a problem possibly with interrupts, for instance screen power off/power saving on Windows.
That's an intriguing idea that it could be non-audio network traffic hitting the Devialet's network interfaces and causing trouble. It would have to be fundamentally broken though for that to happen. I have seen computers affected badly by portscans (for instance), or flooded with traffic (e.g multicast) but a long time ago (i.e 80s, 90s, early 2000s when network interfaces/kernels weren't so robust).
Devialet themselves recently suggested they thought the problem was due to timers on the OS and bugs/inadequacies of the ones they'd been using (or are available for use). I found this idea a little odd myself. They're not the only company streaming audio and I doubt they're doing much that's radically different. There does seem to me to be a problem possibly with interrupts, for instance screen power off/power saving on Windows.