[linux-audio-user] low latency streaming

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 18:46 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:53:47PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote:
> > 
> > >>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?
> 
> Don't know about realplayer

Um, realplayer is closed source and definitely does not allow setting
the buffer size.  This is likely to be a dead end.

Isn't there a workable non-proprietary alternative to stream audio over
the net?

Lee