Hi all,
I'm not sure if this one is a bug on side of Stereo Tool or Windows.
We're using SAM Broadcaster and Stereo Tool as DSP plugin on Windows Server 2008 (productive system) without any problems. There are running two instances of SAM/Stereo Tool on the same machine.
Just now we are testing the same configuration on Windows Server 2012. Basically it all runs very stable and high performant. But if we activate Stereo Tools on both SAM instances, we're running into troubles - indistinguishable on the Windows System itself. Please let me say that everything runs fine (with two SAM instances) as long as we not start Stereo Tool DSP in the second SAM instance.
Some players are interrupting playback on and on (short re-bufferings I think), some players working still without any problems. For example, iTunes is buffering - TuneIn mobile app doesn't. As I mentioned already above there are no visible signs on the Windows System for this issue. CPU, RAM, network bandwidth - everything is absolutely fine (CPU 22%, RAM 2GB, outgoing network bandwidth usage below 1Mbit).
I assume a problem with the realtime handling of Win Server 2012. What we've already tried was to set the task priority of both SAM instances to "Realtime" but without any success...
System information:
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2, 3.30GHz / 16GB RAM
Windows Server 2012 R2
SAM Broadcaster 2013.6
Stereo Tool 7.31
Thank you in advance for any feedback/hints
Regards,
Reto