[Icecast] BUFFERING

[Lorenz Reichelt]

Hi, it seems to me this is the same problem I was experiencing in the beginning: When you specify a fallback file and a listener connects while the stream is inactive, Icecast will loop the fallback file and stream it at maximum speed (even multiple times). Then, the player’s buffer is filled with the fallback file and must play through it before reaching the live stream, which will accordingly be delayed until you reload. The solution is to provide a backup stream instead of a backup file by streaming the backup file to a different mount via ezstream or the like. Take care, Lorenz

> Am 19.08.2021 um 14:36 schrieb Richard Bartholomew <rlbart53 at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I've just installed V2.4.4 onto Debian 10 with a primary and fallback mountpoint with default settings and am experiencing the following.
>  
> Primary mountpoint is set up for live streaming from Station Playlist and the fallback mountpoint plays an mp3 file.
>  
> If I connect to the stream using Winamp, I hear the mp3 file start playing within two seconds.  If I then connect via Station Playlist (SPL), it takes around 40 seconds for the mp3 file to stop and the live stream to be heard.  The same is true if I then disconnect the live stream and the fallback file starts playing.
>  
> However, if I stop and start Winamp playing as soon as I connect via SPL or disconnect so that the mp3 fallback file plays, I hear the appropriate stream straightaway!
>  
> I assume that the delay is being caused due to buffering but is there a way of reducing the buffering, please, so that if someone is listening via a media player like Winamp, they hear the current stream quicker than the 40 seconds delay I'm presently experiencing?
>  
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I hope the above explanation was clear enough.
>  
> Thanks for any help.
>  
> Richard Bartholomew
>  
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