[linux-audio-user] low latency streaming

[Iain Duncan]

>>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?

Thanks
Iain