[icecast-dev] Any buffering on server?

[Michael Smith]

On Monday 10 February 2003 23:32, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> On Monday 10 February 2003 13:25, Michael Smith shaped the electrons to
>
> shout:
> > If it takes this long, then there's something else wrong. It should be
> > well under a tenth of a second (and probably closer to 1/100).
>
> No, nothing wrong, at least darkice is doing very badly.
>
> With darkice as encoder at about 30 kbps, there are about 3 buffers per
> second, which mean that in the worst case, a client must wait 2/3 seconds
> in order to start receiving. In the best case in 1/3 seconds.
>
> That means the improvements is among 0.66 and 0.33 seconds (ish).

Ugh. Yes, if the source client behaves like that, then your worst case is 
pretty bad. However, this change only improves the worst case to 1/3 of a 
second (in your example), you certainly don't improve this to 0.

Note that worst case (example: streaming digital silence with a naive source 
client like darkice (and ices in some modes)) is much much worse than this 
even with your proposed modification - possibly several seconds. This can't 
be changed as easily, though. Sensible source behaviour improves this 
significantly.

Mike

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