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

[HJ]

Er, whoops.  Didn't see this reply before I sent my own.

Please excuse the rough & tumble, sad-excuse-for-a-networking tutorial.  ;P

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

> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 03:44:10AM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> 
> > The other problem you're going to have with Apache, assuming it can cope 
> > with growing files, is the rate at which data is streamed.  Your player 
> > will buffer just fine, but Apache will presumably push the data as fast
> as 
> > its able.  This will probably be faster than the file's bitrate, so
> Apache 
> > will run out of data to send when it catches up to the end of the file.
> 
> No, Apache can only send as fast as the client connects. This isn't really
> a problem. If only it did work this way, I could download files much
> faster!
> 
> What's more of a problem are underruns with icecast when the client's play-
> back clock is faster than the source's. Fortunately the bufferes are big
> enough mostly people don't stay connected long enough to notice.
> 
>  -r
> 
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