[Icecast-dev] Caching current events for new listeners

[Karl Heyes]

ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to work out how one would go about caching "interesting" packets
> from a stream to be sent to newly connecting listeners. At the moment, for, eg,
> Theora and Vorbis, the only interesting packets are the recent ones (up to a
> keyframe for theora), but, in my case, I can have old packets be still active
> while newer packets are obsolete, as packets are sorted by their presentation
> time, but may have arbitrary timespan.
> 
> My codec handler keeps track of those packets, but I can't find how to send
> them on connection. My guess was to try to piggyback onto the code that
> sends headers, but that relies on an already built set of headers, and it does
> seem like a big waste of resources to continually update centrally this list for
> my case, rather than get it from the codec only when a new listener connects.
> 
> Any pointers on the best way to do this ?

you can't keep them in the main queue because you are subject to the 
queue size cutoff so you either keep this within the per codec handle 
structure (codec list) and/or in the block for the header pages (via the 
associated pointer).  The sending handlers are not really codec aware 
but they do notice a change in headers.

karl.