[icecast] Problems streaming high bitrate over a LAN

[Kelly Lee Myers]

Actually, there may be a way to do it.

try this. fire up icecast, and then connect your clients. Then, once the
clients are connected, start streaming data to the server using ices or
shout or whatever. Once data comes into the buffer of the server, it should
start feeding any clients connected to it starting from the first data chunk
the server gets from the source. It is not going to be "dead on" but it will
come close to maybe under 3 seconds difference depending on where the
clients are connecting from (if its over a LAN this may work nicely) but if
it is separate network connections, well, you are going to have to take your
chances.

Now if there was timecode (SMTPE) embedded into the metadata of the stream,
you could probably get something going client side to match things up.
Thoughts??

Lithium

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Hierling" <mad at cc.fh-lippe.de>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [icecast] Problems streaming high bitrate over a LAN

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 09:44:28PM +0100, toad wrote:
> > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:43:33AM +0200, Martin Hierling wrote:
> > > HI,
> > >
> > > sounds like my problem discussed her two or three weeks ago.
> > > Add "sleep_ratio 0" to your icecast.conf.
> > >
> > > regards Martin
> > Thank you very muchly. It works now. Any idea how to synchronize 2
players on
> > the same stream? End up with ~ 1 s phase difference. NAS might be more
> > appropriate... (don't say "use a friggin wire", please, I have thought
of that
>
> No way. I read a discussion about that a while ago, with the result that
it
> is not possible. Because of buffering, no time sync between clients etc.
>
> greetings Martin
>
>
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> > > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:27:44PM +0100, toad wrote:
> > > > I am trying to stream various 320kbps MP3s across my 10Mbps LAN.
Either locally
> > > > or across the network, freeamp and xmms prefetch a chunk, then play
it, then
> > > > fetch another chunk etc. No continuous streaming. shout gets a lot
of !s between
> > > > its "."s when sending the file to icecast. Any ideas?
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