[vorbis] Servlet streamed Ogg skips

[pd]

Ahh, so you think that WinAmp is driven by the data arrival rate when 
reading from an http link, rather than the inherent OGG data rate like it 
does when reading the same data from a disk file?  I had not considered 
that.  If I make the servlet send a filesystem path to the .ogg file (when 
the server and WinAmp are on the same system) then WinAmp plays back 
properly.  So the ogg stream must contain internal information about the 
correct playback speed.  Makes sense.

So if WinAmp ignores this information when playing from an http stream 
then I have to slow down the servlet.  (Or is this a WinAmp bug?  Note it 
does not get overrun like this with MP3 streams.)  But since the ogg files 
use variable bitrate encoding I would have to find out from moment to 
moment how fast to go.  This is evidently something the streaming servers 
pay attention to.  Should I look at the source code for icecast to see how 
to do this?

But my server can easily send an entire 2 minute selection in just a 
couple seconds over a fast enough link, but WinAmp is not going THAT 
fast.  More like 2-3 times too fast.  Perhaps intervening buffering inside 
the Tomcat server or WinAmp itself slows it down a bit.
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