From: "Aaron Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio buffering on live broadcasts
There is no way, to my knowledge, to reduce that delay. That's not really
a quality issue as much as the computer needs time to encode the audio and
the server needs (a little) time to route it and the player needs (also
fairly little) time to decode and play it. Reducing the quality (in
RealProducer) would, if anything, INCREASE the time as you're forcing it to
do more compression.
It also has a lot to do with the inherent nature of IP (packet)
delivery...where it's virtually guaranteed that you're going to lose at
least a few, sometimes a lot of, data packets inbetween the server and the
player...so there's a time delay to give the player time to continually
buffer ahead so if data is lost, there's the buffer to draw off of, but if
there's no delay, there's no buffer...and that's not possible with Real.
Even if you set "buffer ahead" to zero seconds, it'll still buffer a
little.
If you're using SureStream - you might be able to save a smidgen of time by
only encoding at SingleRate instead...but that might get you half a second.
Not worth the trouble, IMHO.
Aaron Bishop
CW Audio Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Hillis.Michael.NWASTA.PuertoRico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Audio buffering on live broadcasts
I'm using RealServer and RealProducer to broadcast a live range audio feed
to RealPlayer clients. I noticed, and so have the users, that there is a
fifteen second delay between real-time audio and what comes out RealPlayer.
I need to reduce the delay, even if it means a hit on quality. What
adjustments are available for this?
Michael Hillis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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