Re: why HLS/DASH are problematic in an Icecast context

Ralph Giles <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:51:20 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.icecast.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2015-02-20 8:05 AM, Eric Richardson wrote:
> Because we don't have to keep one connection alive, HLS handles that on
> today's network routing realities

So the issue here is that with an icecast stream there's no way to
restart playback on a new tcp session without missing some of the
content? You'd rather have smooth playback through reconnects even if it
adds latence?

 -r