On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 6:24 PM, John Plsek <[email protected]> wrote:
> The buffering issue, when you say the buffer can't keep up, what do you
> mean?
>
The live_dj drops out and we hear the backup_playlist (due to the way my
fallback is setup) and I see that message in the liquidsoap log "We must
catch up XX seconds!"
>
> The latency from the moment a sound is made into a microphone up until
> that sound is sent out of the networks is irrelevant to the destination, as
> long as stream is constant. If it isn't constant, it could be due to
> whatever your friend is using to encode and send the stream to input.harbor
> not working correctly.
>
> Also, just because your icecast output speed is 128kbps, that has no
> bearing on the stream your friend is sending to input.harbor. he could be
> sending at any rate (and any format supported by liquidsoap) he wants,
> liquidsoap will transcode it to the output rate you choose in your
> output.icecast ... though, I see you don't have a bitrate there!? Does
> liquidsoap have a default value?
>
> There's no default, I think it just takes whatever you give it and
transcodes it, which is obviously not a free operation.
The pipeline is something like this I suppose:
Friend sends 128kbps OGG from traktor -> reaches input.harbor -> transcodes
to mp3 and ogg bitrates to output.icecast
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