On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 18:53 -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > >>I got icecast and muse working, listening through real player > >>on windoze. However, the latency is really high, about 10sec. I'm using > >>a AMD 64 3000 patched with low latency, and both ends have high speed > >>dsl connections. Can anyone tell me what to do to get the latency down > >>to a couple of seconds or less? > > > > What have you set the buffer sizes to in icecast and RealPlayer? That > > kind of programs typically have very large buffers. > > I couldn't figure out where to do that for RealPlayer, or for icecast. > In icecast I turned off the burst thing. Is the queue size in the conf > file the same as buffer size? Don't know, sorry. I just remember that when I tried to setup a live feed using Icecast of me playing keyboard with Zyn I didn't get under 15-20 seconds using XMMS for playing (or much much more when broadcasting digital silence, since I didn't manage to set the OGG encoder to use a fixed bitrate). I didn't try that hard though, and it was almost a year ago. --ll -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20050913/e39970ac/attachment.bin
