[icecast-dev] Work on ICECAST : IcecastAdmin, remodularisation, Doc (Docbook), speex ...

[Michael Smith]

> We also modified the buffer structure in order to make the icecast work
> more logical :
> just inserting the client in the stream and then serving him in a non
> specific way (avoiding
> the reconstruction of data for each client).

Can you explain what you mean by this? For ogg streaming, icecast2 does _not_ 
reconstruct data for each client. For mp3 streaming, it does - but only 
because it _has to_ - if you don't, you have to artificially synchronise on 
metadata interval. That would mean that for a low bitrate mp3 stream (say 
around 8 kbps), it would be an average of 8 seconds between connecting and 
the client being sent _any_ data at all. That's clearly not desirable, so for 
mp3, we do rebuild the data stream on a per-client basis. 

(I'm not ignoring the rest of your work, by the way - I just haven't had a 
chance to look at it yet).

Mike

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