[Icecast-dev] Icecast2 Burst-on-Connect

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Michael Smith wrote:

> There's one thing that icecast doesn't do (except for ogg streams)
> that other servers might (but from what I'm told, shoutcast doesn't):
> start sending from some valid synchronisation point (e.g. the mpeg
> sync pattern) - obviously, if you do that, it's a bit easier on
> clients (but  I don't know of any that don't cope).

Media Player Classic requires a Content-Length: before it will stream.

So does Windows Media Player 6.4, except it also requires something else - 
could it be this mpeg sync pattern ?

Now discuss "Content-Length: -1" ...