[Icecast-dev] Question about buffering with icecast protocol

Karl Heyes
2008-01-14T10:20:01Z

Geoff Shang wrote:

>
> This raises a question I've been meaning to ask for awhile.  Is there
> any reason why we have both burst on connect and burst size?
> Compatibility with older versions?  The burst size parameter would seem
> to be sufficient if setting it to 0 disables it.

The burst on connect was introduced as a setting in an earlier queuing
implementation. As you have already mentioned, it was not that
configurable so these days it's just an alias for burst-size of 64k if
enabled and 0 if not.

karl.