[vorbis] Re: Website for Ogg/Vorbis support for MPEG4IP

[John Morton]

On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 17:57, Mark Hetherington wrote:
> Ok, fair enough, but doesn't icecast just rebuffer if it gets too far
> behind? Or is this the problem?

Pretty much. You can't just tell the tcp layer to stop asking for a 
retransmit for a packet you don't care about anymore. It doesn't have
the right control knobs in userspace, AFAIK.

> Could icecast be modified to just send UDP packets?

Why yes, it's called RTP/RTSP, just as the protocol of preference that uses 
TCP is HTTP :-)

John

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