[Icecast] Very slow bufferring and delay on windows media player and icecast server (sourced by m3w)

[Yedidia Klein]

I solved it by configuring m3w encoder (that is lame) to a constant 
bitrate, seems that WMP don't handle well variable bit rate.

tnx,

--Yedidia

quoting Leo Currie:

> Yedidia Klein wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to broadcast a radio from a linux server that is coming 
>> from a windows machine using m3w.
>>
>> it's working very well for Winamp and linux mplayer as client - but 
>> while using Windows Media Player it's buffering for about 8 minutes 
>> then it start to work well w/ a delay of 8 minutes !!
>
>
> Which version of WMP are you trying this on?
> How are you passing the stream URL to the player?
> I'm wondering if the player is trying to download the whole file 
> before playing it.... :o
>
> As I said in a thread below, I have no problems using WMP on an MP3 
> stream. http://www.radiosix.com/listen.asx
>
>
> Leo