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j7n
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 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: Quality as a function of listener count |
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Is it possible to make the server force everybody onto a lower quality mountpoint once the number of listeners reaches a certain value?
Currently I'm planning to put up three streams: /good_q, /medium_q, /bad_q, where medium_q is a fallback for good_q, once the latter serves say 50 clients.
The problem is that the bandwidth would now be shared unequally, and the listeners would potentially hammer the server in the hope to get back onto good_q. |
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karlH
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: |
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You've already identified the problem with that setup just from the usage point of view. People will reconnect just in the hope of getting a high quality slot wasting your bandwidth (you probably have burst at connection as well). While icecast could be made to do that as you wished, it would be better to use something other than fallback-mount as changing qualiy / bitrate midstream (eg if high quality stream shuts down) confuses some clients.
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