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...hit the broken cases) and not done this at one of the times > where it will cause errors. In icecast/vorbis each refbuf is composed of a entire page, and the documentation (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/doc/oggstream.html) states that a page contains the necessary headers to reconstruct the packetsand re-sync the stream. So, the players must be able continue playing if it receives an out of sequence page. Because a refbuf is a page, we could drop them all but the logical stream headers, which are cached and sent first (easy to check). So, before discarding a page, we should check is "...

On Saturday 18 January 2003 03:37, Michael Smith shaped the electrons to shout: > We can't just drop packets, the transmission model assumed by the > format handlers (and required by at least one of them) will not permit It's not vorbis. Does it? > us to drop any data. It'd be possible, in theory at least, to tag > buffers with a flag to say that they can be dropped, but