Icecast Streaming Media Server

[mirror666]

Hi. I'm new to icecast, i set it up yesterday and found it very interesting. There is one issue which bothers me. I want to have a very small delay time when broadcasting, since normally when i broadcast something, a client will hear it after about 7-10 seconds. I want to make this time smaller, like maximum 2 seconds or less. So i thought about playing around with

[mirror666]

fact b) begs the question :

does anyone know of any web embedded/java/flash/whatever player which has a configurable buffer ? windows media player is not an option because it has to be done manually, but i don't want the end user to interfere with that.
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[karlH]

the icecast burst size affects this delay but you are correct that the players pre buffering size also affects this latency as well. Most people don't care about the latency as they have no reference for comparison. You should have a larger queue size (100k is not a lot), but whatever size you make it it's won't affect latency.

Most web embedded players are very limited, I'm not sure of any that allows setting the pre buffering.

karl.