Icecast - May 2005 - Very slow bufferring and delay on windows media player and icecast server (sourced by m3w)

I'm trying to broadcast a radio from a linux server that is coming from 
a windows machine using m3w.

it's working very well for Winamp and linux mplayer as client - but 
while using Windows Media Player it's buffering for about 8 minutes then 
it start to work well w/ a delay of 8 minutes !!

I've this set up :

<burst-on-connect>1</burst-on-connect>
        <!-- same as burst-on-connect, but this allows for being more
             specific on how much to burst. Most people won't need to
             change from the default 64k. Applies to all mountpoints  -->
        <burst-size>65535</burst-size>


should I change any parameter here ??


thanks


--Yedidia

Yedidia Klein wrote:
> I'm trying to broadcast a radio from a linux server that is coming from
> a windows machine using m3w.
> 
> it's working very well for Winamp and linux mplayer as client - but 
> while using Windows Media Player it's buffering for about 8 minutes
then
> it start to work well w/ a delay of 8 minutes !!
Which version of WMP are you trying this on?
How are you passing the stream URL to the player?
I'm wondering if the player is trying to download the whole file before 
playing it.... :o

As I said in a thread below, I have no problems using WMP on an MP3 
stream. http://www.radiosix.com/listen.asx


Leo

I solved it by configuring m3w encoder (that is lame) to a constant 
bitrate, seems that WMP don't handle well variable bit rate.

tnx,

--Yedidia

quoting Leo Currie:
> Yedidia Klein wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to broadcast a radio from a linux server that is coming 
>> from a windows machine using m3w.
>>
>> it's working very well for Winamp and linux mplayer as client - but
>> while using Windows Media Player it's buffering for about 8 minutes
>> then it start to work well w/ a delay of 8 minutes !!
>
>
> Which version of WMP are you trying this on?
> How are you passing the stream URL to the player?
> I'm wondering if the player is trying to download the whole file 
> before playing it.... :o
>
> As I said in a thread below, I have no problems using WMP on an MP3 
> stream. http://www.radiosix.com/listen.asx
>
>
> Leo