[Vorbis] Help please streaming oggs as they are being created

HJ inzanekaoz at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 26 06:29:30 PDT 2004


Touche.


--- Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:49:19AM -0700, HJ wrote:
> 
> > I thought that when streaming, upstream bandwidth is *almost* always more
> of
> > a consideration than latency.  Though, in this case, yes, latency will
> > probably be noticibly higher than, say, fetching the stream from icecast.
> 
> Upstream bandwidth is the limiting factor for how many simultaneous 
> streaming clients one may support. I was just talking about seek
> performance over http. Because the client has to do multiple seeks
> to converge on the byte offset of the designed temporal location,
> round-trip latency is the dominant factor for seeking.
> 
>  -r
> 



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