SW
Tickets
StreamWarcher Customer Support
Home
Knowledge Base
☾
Dark
Search
SW Tickets
Portal, tickets & support
SW Monitor
Monitoring & alerts
SW Encoder
Audio, outputs & metadata
SW Inspector
Stream analysis & results
Streaming Help
General streaming info
Account, Security & Billing
Account, privacy & billing
Knowledge Base
› SW Inspector
SW Inspector
9 articles
Analyzing an HLS stream
SW Inspector · How HLS inspection differs from a continuous ICY-style stream.
Analyzing an ICY, Icecast, or SHOUTcast stream
SW Inspector · What SW Inspector checks on a traditional broadcast stream endpoint.
Declared bitrate versus measured bitrate
SW Inspector · Why the server's advertised bitrate can differ from observed media.
Getting started with SW Inspector
SW Inspector · Analyze broadcast stream endpoints and understand the main diagnostic results.
Troubleshooting an inspection that fails
SW Inspector · Checks to perform when SW Inspector cannot analyze a stream URL.
Understanding codec, bitrate, sample rate, and channels
SW Inspector · Interpret the core audio characteristics reported by an inspection.
Understanding connection timing
SW Inspector · What HTTP response and first-audio timing can and cannot tell you.
Using Saved Streams and History
SW Inspector · Keep useful stream inspections available for later comparison and reporting.
Why queue size is not listener latency
SW Inspector · Avoid interpreting a server queue or buffer value as end-to-end seconds of delay.