[icecast] Alrighty.. ALMOST there! :)

[Ian Dickens]

Was wondering if you might be so kind as to send me the patches?

Many thanks in advance,

Ian Dickens      ian at mitre.org

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Dale Ghent wrote:

>
> So, a friend pointed me to the patch for sock.c:533, and that patch went a
> LONG way in fixing the streaming problems I've been experiencing (on
> solaris 8/sparc.) Thanks so much for that!
>
> Now, I think that *sending* the stream is now squared away, but I think
> one problem remains on the receiving end of things.
>
> I use the perl streamcast utility to stream my playlists, and tracks sound
> great. But sometimes when the tracks change, the new track will get
> regular half-a-second audible gaps - no studdering or repeats - just gaps.
>
> Sometimes it'll persist through the next track... sometimes it clears up
> when the next track starts.
>
> My hunch is that icecast wants/expects a constant incoming stream of data,
> and I think if there are any gaps in the incoming stream, it messes it up.
> It's plausible that the track change is what's causing thes very short
> gaps in the incoming stream data, and then persist at regular intervals in
> the outgoing stream to clients for the remainder of the track.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> /dale
>
>
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