Is there a way to monitor/analyse data transport of live streams like digital radio?

Is there a way to monitor/analyse data transport of live streams like digital radio? I regularly capture mms asx rtsp etc.

I've been capturing (below soundcard threshold using Replay A/V 'software' method) for a year or so and periodically get plagued by disconnection events. I'm using Windows XP sp2.

I exchange support tickets with Replay regarding these events but nothing conclusive transpired. Looking at the event log created for each scheduled capture is somewhat confusing for a non-tech like me but perhaps someone here may have experience of 'reading' these types of logs.

I have taken the liberty of pasting in here an example of the data for one of these occasions where disconnection of the stream became apparent. The capture seemed to begin to have problems about half way down with ':Sat Mar 3 8:28:48 PM Recording stopped before scheduled end time." No errors were reported in the XP event viewer. Grateful for any thoughts on this problem.

Recording log for RADIO 7 - WM
Replay A/V Version 8.03
Reg code:
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM
Download Capture Summary:
Version 8.03
URL = mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1
Days=
Next = Sat Mar 3 20:06 - 21:37 (1x)
Capture Type = Stream Capture
Record-to Format = Stream Capture
Convert-to Format = Nothing - Leave As Is

No Eliminate Dead Air
No Create New Track after silence option
No Split Tracks after time
Automatic retuning enabled
Mute while recording disabled

Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Download capture type: Stream Capture
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Recording : RADIO 7 - WM
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM URL : mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Filename : C:\Documents and Settings\Chris\Desktop\RADIO 7 - WM\RADIO 7 - WM Mar 03.cap
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM URL : mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Starting Job #50
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Looking up host wmlive.bbc.co.uk...
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Connecting to host wmlive.bbc.co.uk...
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Host wmlive.bbc.co.uk connected. Waiting for mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1.
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: GET /wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1 HTTP/1.0
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Accept: *.*, */*
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: User-Agent: NSPlayer/10.00.00.3646
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Host: wmlive.bbc.co.uk
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Accept-Encoding: gzip
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Pragma: no-cache,rate=1.000000,stream-time=0,stream-offset=0:0,request-context=1,max-duration=0
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Pragma: xClientGUID={759C09ED-1195-11D9-8C80-008048139F85}
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Connection: Close
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Transferring data from mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1.
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Received data for 43581444
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Content-Type: application/vnd.ms.wms-hdr.asfv1
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Server: Cougar/9.01.01.3814
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Content-Length: 3998
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:05:57 GMT
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Pragma: no-cache, client-id=3524163050, xResetStrm=1, features="broadcast", timeout=60000
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Cache-Control: no-cache, x-wms-stream-type="broadcast"
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Last-Modified: Sat, 30 Dec 1899 00:00:00 GMT
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Supported: com.microsoft.wm.srvppair, com.microsoft.wm.sswitch, com.microsoft.wm.predstrm, com.microsoft.wm.fastcache, com.microsoft.wm.startupprofile
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Connecting to host wmlive.bbc.co.uk...
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Host wmlive.bbc.co.uk connected. Waiting for mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1.
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: GET /wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1 HTTP/1.0
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Accept: *.*, */*
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: User-Agent: NSPlayer/10.00.00.3646
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Host: wmlive.bbc.co.uk
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Accept-Encoding: gzip
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Pragma: no-cache,rate=1.000000,request-context=1
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Pragma: xPlayStrm=1
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Pragma: AccelBW=18160345, AccelDuration=100000, Speed=5.000
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Pragma: xClientGUID={759C09ED-1195-11D9-8C80-008048139F85}
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Supported: com.microsoft.wm.srvppair, com.microsoft.wm.sswitch, com.microsoft.wm.predstrm
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Connection: Close
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Transferring data from mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1.
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Content-Type: application/x-mms-framed
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Server: Cougar/9.01.01.3814
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:05:57 GMT
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Pragma: no-cache, client-id=2617422323, xResetStrm=1, features="broadcast", timeout=60000, AccelBW=3500000, AccelDuration=20954, Speed=1.000
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Cache-Control: no-cache
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Last-Modified: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 20:05:57 GMT
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Supported: com.microsoft.wm.srvppair, com.microsoft.wm.sswitch, com.microsoft.wm.predstrm, com.microsoft.wm.fastcache, com.microsoft.wm.startupprofile
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Connection: keep-alive
Sat Mar 3 8:05:56 PM Status 43581444: Session Started
Sat Mar 3 8:28:46 PM Status 43581444: Download complete .
Sat Mar 3 8:28:46 PM Status 43581444: Session Ended
Sat Mar 3 8:28:46 PM Stopping DL Recording
Sat Mar 3 8:28:48 PM Starting Reprocess
Sat Mar 3 8:28:48 PM Recording stopped before scheduled end time. A new recording has been started.
Sat Mar 3 8:28:48 PM
Download Capture Summary:
Version 8.03
URL = mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1
Days=
Next = Sat Mar 3 20:06 - 21:37 (1x)
Capture Type = Stream Capture
Record-to Format = Stream Capture
Convert-to Format = Nothing - Leave As Is

No Eliminate Dead Air
No Create New Track after silence option
No Split Tracks after time
Automatic retuning enabled
Mute while recording disabled

Sat Mar 3 8:28:49 PM Download capture type: Stream Capture
Sat Mar 3 8:28:49 PM Recording : RADIO 7 - WM
Sat Mar 3 8:28:49 PM URL : mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1
Sat Mar 3 8:28:49 PM Filename : C:\Documents and Settings\Chris\Desktop\RADIO 7 - WM\RADIO 7 - WM Mar 03_02.cap
Sat Mar 3 8:28:49 PM URL : mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1
Sat Mar 3 8:28:49 PM Starting Job #50
Sat Mar 3 8:28:49 PM Status 43581444: Connecting to host wmlive.bbc.co.uk...
Sat Mar 3 8:28:51 PM Status 43581444: Host wmlive.bbc.co.uk connected. Waiting for mms://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1.
Sat Mar 3 8:28:51 PM Status 43581444: GET /wms%5Cbbc7%5Chi_s1 HTTP/1.0

...CONTINUES but max reached for this message - hopefully it is enough information

Due to network congestion you may experience problems when recording a stream. BBC offers lots of on-demand streams so if you have a choice between live and on-demand streams, record only the latter ones. There are at least two reasons for this. First of all when recording on-demand streams you may usually use multiple threads so the recording can be done much faster. And second of all disconnection problems won't worry you anymore.

Here are some more tips I suggest you to read:
Troubleshooting: Poor audio/video quality of a stream

[applian]

Hi -

These breaks are due to network "hiccups". Usually this will result in separate files being created when one of these occurs.

You can also try changing to "Capture by Recording Audio Output" instead of "Capture by Downloading + Stream Capture". This will result in a continuous recording of what you hear from your PC's speakers. It's not as elegant as the "Capture by Downloading + Stream Capture" method, but it is anotherway to get the job done.

Best Regards,

Bill Dettering
Applian Technologies Inc.
www.applian.com

Also WM Recorder in the URL mode is very good at recording live Windows Media streams. It can reprocess Windows Media files fixing them and removing dead air.