Hi Russell.
You shouldn’t experience dropouts unless a) your network connection is unable to sustain the required throughput or b) one of the computers in the chain is too busy to process everything “in time”
I would recommend checking the log file which should be /tmp/wfview.log on the RPi and in your default temporary directory on Windows. This will hopefully tell us what is happening.
Live streaming via UDP is very susceptible to network issues as UDP is a ‘connectionless’ protocol and delivery isn’t guaranteed. Wfview does have a retransmission system to compensate for this but it can become overwhelmed with large packet loss.
I haven’t done much testing but I don’t think that running Opus codec at 24Khz sample rate will provide any significant benefit as Opus is optimized for 48KHz, so this is forcing wfview to resample, which is quite CPU intensive (it may actually be worse!)
You can also run wfview in debug mode ( wfview –debug ) and it will then log MUCH more information.
73 Phil M0VSE
