On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 18:46 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:53:47PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > > > > >>Hey everyone, I'm trying to get it set it up so I can work remotely on > > >>my linux box from a windoze terminal over vnc and hear the audio via > > >>icecast. 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 about realplayer Um, realplayer is closed source and definitely does not allow setting the buffer size. This is likely to be a dead end. Isn't there a workable non-proprietary alternative to stream audio over the net? Lee
