[Live-devel] Real Time Streamming

[Keith Gurganus]

The QuickTime Player allows you to adjust the buffering.  Select
Preferences, QuickTime Preferences, Connection Tab, Instant On.  Set "Play
stream" to Immediately.

- Keith


>>    Unfortunally, it takes quite sometime for a given frame to be displayed
>> by QuickTime. Is there anything I can do to make it more "real time"?
> 
> This is a problem with QuickTime Player - not the LIVE.COM server
> code.  QuickTime Player has a large internal buffer, and there is typically
> a large delay (a few seconds) before it displays its incoming data.  This
> is presumably a consequence of the fact that QuickTime Player was designed
> primarily to play on-demand streams, rather than live streams.
> 
> If you want less of a delay, I suggest that you use the VLC media player
> <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/> instead.
> 
> 
> Ross Finlayson
> LIVE.COM
> <http://www.live.com/>
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