[BC] Re: Portable HD

[JD Davis]

My point exactly. Internet streaming of radio stations is NOT a direct Barix
type stream. It goes through several hops before getting to the listener,
add in the needed compression to make it available to mass numbers and the
latency is murder. This is why stations don't do live contesting targeted at
internet listeners. They are way too far behind the listening curve.

James .JD. Davis
Chief Engineer
Results Radio, Chico/Yuba City, CA

-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] From:  Dana Puopolo

With a good 'net connection, a Barix cross country link (running UDP) can be
two seconds or less.
Think about it-a VOIP connection basically is streaming audio across the
Internet-and the latency is so low that two people can converse without any
problems.

High latency connections are the result of HTTP streaming, doe to the ACKs
being sent back and forth to make sure that 100% of the data has been
received.

-D

Everyone talks about streaming being the end of terrestrial radio, "our
worst nightmare"!!! What would the delay be at the game listening to an
internet stream? I'm guessing at LEAST 15 seconds, to as much as 45...

James .JD. Davis
Chief Engineer
Results Radio, Chico/Yuba City, CA