Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Skorpor]

Hi all,
I am experimenting trying to stream audio so my band could rehearse over the net. I know there's a couple of "pay for it" services that claims to do this. As I understand it, Icecast is buffering a fixed amount of data, regardless of bitrate, correct? A 64kbps mp3-stream got around 10 sec, and 320 got 2 sec in a test I just did across a distance of 150km. Is there any way to lower the delay? A 64kbps stream would do fine, athough when I tested 320kbps streamed fine with no breakups, it's just too much delay.
On the transmitting side I got an IBM X31 laptop using an Echo Indigo (64 samples buffer), edcast asio encoder and Icecast. On the recieving side is a AMD 5600+ 4GB RAM, integrated audio Winamp with the asio-out plugin and asio4all, 64 samples buffer here also. Both are on ADSL. I've run TCP-optimizer too.

[karlH]

icecast is not a real-time application but whether you can get what you want will depend on the delay you find acceptable and what delay is added by any playback application. burst-size can be set to 0 so that will make icecast send without adding delay, but the internally block size tends to be a little of 1k.

karl.

[Skorpor]

Ok, here's what my config file looks like. The line
<burst-on-connect>0</burst-on-connect>
was not there when I ran the test earlier.