[Icecast-dev] Question about buffering with icecast protocol

Thomas B. Ruecker
2008-01-15T02:45:28Z

Karl Heyes schrieb:
> 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.
One could say then that this is deprecated? Can we drop this from the
example config in trunk so we don't confuse people?

Cheers

Thomas