[Icecast] IceCast KH - question

[Karl Heyes]

On 11/06/13 07:16, "Thomas B. Rücker" wrote:
> Hi,

>> Other datail: all users have always "Lag: 0" on Admin interface
>
> That doesn't need to be a problem, but without full understanding it's
> hard to say.

that is just the difference between the latest source offset and client 
offset, at 0, just like on the main trunk, the listener is at the latest 
point on the queue.  Simply means that there is no lag on the icecast to 
listener link

> I've had this stream now running for about 1800s and have observed one
> peculiar thing, the cache-fill went constantly down from an initial 20%
> to now about 3%.
> I let it run a bit longer and this is what I get:
>
> Cache empty, {…}
> A:1938.8 (32:18.8) of 0.0 (unknown) 1.4% 0%
>
> I suspect that Winamp is signalling a low buffer by that red square.
> So, yes, that's why the players drop, the bitrate is a tiny bit lower
> than the playback rate. This means that over time a player will deplete
> the cache and inevitably either rebuffer or start to stutter. You can
> also force this to happen immediately if you disable buffering completely.
> As to the root cause I can only speculate it could be some KH specific
> feature or it can be that your source client has a problem.

saw exactly the same thing yesterday and the stats for the incoming 
bitrate indicate a slightly lower than expected bitrate

Just for completeness, the sam is apparently transcoding from files, not 
live input and is also within virtualbox, the icecast is on not within a 
VM.  While I don't know for sure, I suspect sam is probably using the VB 
clock for regulating the stream and if there is some issue on drift then 
that would account for it.


karl.