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# @(#)HbeatTo.txt	7.2 02/11/18
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Heartbeat Timeout (seconds)

To detect a crash or hang error condition in the
CDDA extraction and playback threads, these threads
produce periodic "heartbeat" timestamps that are
monitored by the main control thread.

When the extraction or playback thread has not
produced a heartbeat longer than the time interval
defined by this parameter, the control thread will
consider it an error and terminate the CDDA operation.

This parameter may need to be increased when run on
a very slow system, in order to avoid a false
termination of the CDDA operation.

The minimum heartbeat timeout value is 5 seconds
and the default is 15 seconds.

If you change the setting of the heartbeat timeout
value, it will not affect a CDDA playback operation
in progress.  It will take effect on the next CDDA
play session.

