<div>I didn't have time to look in an actual config file for the name (burst-size), but you figured it out!</div>
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<div>StageFright is frustrating and has a history of nasty bugs. You discovered one of its irritating limitations.</div>
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<div>I think most good stream players avoid it. </div>
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<div>Miles Whitener</div>
<div>MultiParadigm Corporation</div>
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<div>Subject: Re: [Icecast] Delay playing some streams on Android<br />From: "M M" <mh747@outlook.com><br />Date: 9/30/15 3:01 pm<br />To: "Icecast streaming server user discussions" <icecast@xiph.org><br /><br />
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<div>I suppose you were pointing me towards the "burst-size" setting, but it's not totally clear. Please correct me if you meant something else.</div>
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<div>I increased the burst-size to 131072 bytes, or 128 kibibytes. My Android app now plays the stream without much delay. I still don't know why I didn't notice this problem in an Android emulator.</div>
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<div>Thanks for the pointer.</div>
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<div><hr id="stopSpelling" />From: purchasing.05@multiparadigm.com<br />To: icecast@xiph.org<br />Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:25:46 -0700<br />Subject: Re: [Icecast] Delay playing some streams on Android<br /><br />
<div>The built in player (StageFright) uses a large buffer. If the Icecast mount also uses a large buffer, the buffer in the player can be filled quickly (on a fast connection), otherwise not.<br /><br /></div>
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<div id="ecxwmQuoteWrapper">-------- Original Message --------<br /> Subject: [Icecast] Delay playing some streams on Android<br /> From: M M <<a href="mailto:mh747@outlook.com">mh747@outlook.com</a>><br /> Date: Tue, September 29, 2015 4:13 pm<br /> To: "<a href="mailto:icecast@xiph.org">icecast@xiph.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:icecast@xiph.org">icecast@xiph.org</a>><br /> <br /> <br /> I'm writing an Android app to play streams. I use the standard Android "MediaPlayer" library to play streams. I've noticed that some streams start playing without much delay (MPR), but others take quite a while to start (WFMU). The only thing changing in my code is the URI of the Icecast mountpoint. My test device is a Nexus 5 running Android 5.1.1.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://current.stream.publicradio.org/kcmp.mp3" target="_blank">http://current.stream.publicradio.org/kcmp.mp3</a> starts playing in about 2 seconds. It's a 128 kbps stream from Minnesota Public Radio.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://stream0.wfmu.org/freeform-128k" target="_blank">http://stream0.wfmu.org/freeform-128k</a> starts playing in about 9 seconds. It's a 128 kbps stream from WFMU.<br /> <br /> The problem gets worse as the bitrate goes down. 32 kbps streams take quite a while to start.<br /> <br /> I don't notice this problem in iOS code I've written. I also don't notice it in VLC.<br /> <br /> You can view the headers with:<br /> <br /> curl -s -D - <a href="http://current.stream.publicradio.org/kcmp.mp3" target="_blank">http://current.stream.publicradio.org/kcmp.mp3</a> -o /dev/null<br /> <br /> StackOverflow has several posts about this. For example: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6582908/why-does-it-take-so-long-for-androids-mediaplayer-to-prepare-some-live-streams" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6582908/why-does-it-take-so-long-for-androids-mediaplayer-to-prepare-some-live-streams</a>.<br /> <br /> Any idea what's going on?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> _______________________________________________<br /> Icecast mailing list<br /> <a href="mailto:Icecast@xiph.org">Icecast@xiph.org</a><br /> <a href="http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast" target="_blank">http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast</a></div>
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