[Icecast] [Icecast-dev] metadata fallback mounts

[Karl Heyes]

Andy Woolley wrote:
> Have now set the log to level 4 and viewed the output when the stream 
> stops/starts.
> 
> Can't see any errors though. I'm getting:
> 
> source/source_move_clients passing 1 listeners to "/fallback.mp3"
> 
>   on stream stop and:
> 
> source/source_move_clients passing 1 listeners to "/studio"
> 
>   when the stream starts again, so looks like it's working.
> 
> Could it be the client at fault?
> 
> Also, I did notice that sometimes (very occasionally) it will actually 
> work but takes about 3 to 4 minutes to action. I tried the test again 
> but it doesn't work every time only works occasionally.

from the description, it sounds like it is doing what it's supposed to 
be doing, but the listening client is buffering a large amount of the 
sent stream data.  The player will have a buffer, verify what setting 
that is at and what the stream stream bitrate is.

karl.