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Posted by LinX on Jan-08-2005 20:41:

Spinning live on the web

ive seen on winamp ,a few times, people spinning live on their webcams and you can hear them and everything. i wanted to do this with a friend of mine. does anyone know what kind of software i need for this? or what kind of equipment i need, ive never done this before.

Posted by Basstard on Jan-08-2005 20:42:

you need to purchase an internet

Posted by jupiterone on Jan-08-2005 21:16:

you need SHOUTcast for winamp,purchase a server for it and configuring your webcam...but the webcam has to be topnotch..becasue no one wil wanna be lagged while wathcing. Need a sound card that can record or go from mixer to port..rca cables or whatever to hook your mixer to your card.

Posted by DannyO on Jan-08-2005 21:20:

quote:
Originally posted by Basstard
you need to purchase an internet

Where can I buy one of these "internets"????

Seriously, check the forums on winamp.com, there great and full of info, but yea basically just need winamp, shoutcast server program and the plugin.

Posted by TranceSpeeder on Jan-08-2005 22:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Basstard
you need to purchase an internet

Posted by Tegu on Jan-08-2005 23:13:

what about if you just want an audio broadcast? still need winamp, shoutcast, and your own server?

Posted by R.j. on Jan-08-2005 23:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Basstard
you need to purchase an internet

lmfao!

Posted by `pr0digy on Jan-09-2005 00:02:

video is going to require a lot more work, not to mention ALOT more bandwidth... Stick with just audio, imo. Go to winamp.com SHOUTcast and read... then read... And you'll get it

Posted by Ken_Allen on Jan-09-2005 00:32:

oc192 running right into ur comp & a fiber decoder line

Posted by Jake Conlon on Jan-09-2005 01:12:

you need winamp http://www.winamp.com

the shoutcast server http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads

the houstcast winamp plugin http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads

its all free

Posted by onceler on Jan-10-2005 16:00:

With just hosting your own stream on your basic DSL line, at 128kbps, you can prob. get about 2 or 3 people at one time listening. You will need to either host your own server somewhere and pay $$$ in bandwidth, or hook up w/ an online radio station. I am one of the admins at afterhoursdjs.org, which lets djs such as yourself, spin online for free. If you are interested, goto the site and follow the instructions for an account there. It would help if you looked into the other suggestions above and played around w/ shoutcast once or twice before jumping on the ahdjs stream.

Posted by Alekos on Jan-11-2005 05:44:

How about Mac Users ?

Posted by DannyO on Jan-11-2005 05:59:

This is gonna sound kinda mad, and I don't think I could do it, but would it be possible to set something up with my website and send a broadcast to it, then have people tune into my website server to listen, so basically I have 1 stream come out of my computer, goto my website server and then have it host it and people tune into the broadcast from there, therefor uses there bandwidth and not mine, I have 200gb a month of bandwidth, would be nice to use it for a stream and be able to have 30+ people tune in for afew hours each month.

Posted by onceler on Jan-12-2005 02:30:

That's how we do it @ afterhoursdjs.org.. kinda. The djs connect via winamp to our webserver running shoutcast server which then connects to our broadcast server. the problem you will have though is getting 30 people to tune in if you dont have a 24/7 stream. If you do manage to get 30 people connected and you are running at 128kbps, you will be doing about 4Mbps or approx 512KBps / approx 30MB per minute / approx 1.8GB per hour (if my math is correct).

Via shoutcast server, you can be listed on shoutcast, but to be listed on some of the other items (such as itunes), most require you to be 24/7

Posted by DannyO on Jan-12-2005 05:53:

quote:
Originally posted by onceler
That's how we do it @ afterhoursdjs.org.. kinda. The djs connect via winamp to our webserver running shoutcast server which then connects to our broadcast server. the problem you will have though is getting 30 people to tune in if you dont have a 24/7 stream. If you do manage to get 30 people connected and you are running at 128kbps, you will be doing about 4Mbps or approx 512KBps / approx 30MB per minute / approx 1.8GB per hour (if my math is correct).

Via shoutcast server, you can be listed on shoutcast, but to be listed on some of the other items (such as itunes), most require you to be 24/7

Thanks for the info man, I don't want to do a 24/7 show, but I want something setup so I can have more than like 8 people tune in, plus I might do video broadcasts so the extra bandwidth will come in handy, do you know of anywhere I could check on how to set something like that up?

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Jan-12-2005 20:20:

mediacast1.net offers affordable stream hosting.. that's who I use

I looked long and hard and ended up with these guys. It's alot more affordable than renting/colo'ing a server, and they support ya.

Dual Xeon on a OC3 w/ IceCast2.. cant bitch!

... and yes, you all forgot IceCast2. It's like shoutcast, but is totally open source and supports OGGVorbis (I hate MP3)

Posted by Luke Cartwright on Jan-12-2005 20:52:

For just audio broadcasts shoutcast and winamp are undoubtably the best and pretty easy to use once its set up the first time plus its free. As for video I looked into this and it seemed alot of hard work. You will have to pay a fee to get a decent server, and if like me you are already paying for webhosting its just more bills.

What I ended up doing was pre recording my mixes with my web cam and then just uploading them to my webspace for dl, this way you can control the file size and if yr bandwith is getting hammered you can just take the mix down.

Never thought about using my host as a server, didn't know this was possible.