[Icecast-dev] Question about buffering with icecast protocol

Karl Heyes
2008-01-14T08:06:23Z

Dami?n Lezama wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I?ve seen that shoutCAST sends data much faster than real time when you
> connect (for a while I assume, otherwise you?d be travelling to the
> future:). That?s useful for fast buffering.
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> With icecast I don?t get that behavior, stream downloads at real time.
> Is there a way to buffer data faster than real time? Maybe a ?seek?
> feature? I need that because I need to allocate a special large buffer
> for an app. Thanks!

Look at the burst-size option. The default is 64kbytes which is fine for
  most audio apps pre-buffering settings but you can alter it to
something larger or smaller.  To make it similar to shoutcast you'd need
to have a burst size of something like 1-2Meg (not sure of the exact
figure).

karl.