[Icecast] Configure Ubuntu Server 16.04 for icecast2

[Jordan Erickson]

Hi Frederick,

Wouldn't overhead (at least partly) already be factored in with the
speed test data/results? Obviously not 100% comparable to audio
streaming, but..


Cheers,
Jordan

On 10/21/18 9:10 AM, Fred Gleason wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2018, at 12:05, Jordan Erickson <jordan at coolmic.net
> <mailto:jordan at coolmic.net>> wrote:
> 
>> 283000/5000=56.6
>>
>> So with ~283Mb/s upstream, if you wanted 5,000 listener capacity your
>> streams would have to have a bitrate of 56.6kb/s or lower.
> 
> Speaking conservatively, I would de-rate that number by 50%, or in other
> words:
> 
> 0.5*283000/5000=28.3 kb/sec.
> 
> This to account for various overheads (TCP/IP packet framing and
> negotiation, data bursting at stream startup, administrative interface
> traffic, etc. It all adds up.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
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