Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hello guys,

I need some help.... I've been working with Icecast for almost a year, and I want to start streaming sports events, so I need decrease (or deletale) the latency... Look my conf:

<queue-size>1024</queue-size>
<client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
<header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
<source-timeout>10</source-timeout>
<burst-on-connect>0</burst-on-connect>
<burst-size>16384</burst-size>

That gives me 8-12 sec of latency.... I've searching a while and I found LiveIce (now I stream directly with Simplecast poiting to Icecast serv) and I wish know if LiveIce could help me, or even other thing to decrease the latency more and more....

Thanks in advance!!!

[karlH]

The lowest latency setting that icecast adds is a burst size of 0 (you don't want a queue size of 1024 bytes, leave that at 512k or higher). This setting is just how much icecast adds, it doesn't stop the clients from adding latency. burst / stream bitrate will give you the additional latency added by icecast.

Source clients generally don't add much as they tend to send the data after they read/encode a certain small amount, but players can have large buffers.

karl.