I'm just wondering if anyone knows how to use, or uses, IceCast.
I've been using shoutcast for winamp for awhile, but i'm having problems now, and have been looking for something else. Does anyone know exactly how icecast works? Is it run on its own server, then you connect to it with your computer, and stream from that? How exactly do you configure it? I'm so lost lol. Any info on anything to do with it would be helpful haha
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
Re: IceCast. Know it? Use it?
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Originally posted by Playa24_7
I'm just wondering if anyone knows how to use, or uses, IceCast.
I've been using shoutcast for winamp for awhile, but i'm having problems now, and have been looking for something else. Does anyone know exactly how icecast works? Is it run on its own server, then you connect to it with your computer, and stream from that? How exactly do you configure it? I'm so lost lol. Any info on anything to do with it would be helpful haha
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Mar-07-2006 00:58
rabbitjoker
aural sadist
Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Toronto, ON, CANADA
Remember
Source (Server) ---> (Broadcast) Server <---- Listener (Client)
The source connects to the (broadcast) server. Listener (clients) then connect to the (broadcast) server.
Bandwidth
To be able to broadcast a 128 kb stream - you need to be able to upstream 141 Kbit/s to the (broadcast) server. The (broadcast) server then requires 141 Kbit/s per listener slot.
e.g. 2HP.ca's 30 listener max requires that the (broadcast) server have a bandwidth of at least 4.125 Mbit/s.
Data rx/tx
To be able to broadcast a 128 kb stream - you need to be able to transfer 316.406 Gbits or 39.551 Gbytes of data per month to the (broadcast) server. The broadcast server then requires 39.551 Gbytes per listener slot per month.
e.g. 2HP.ca's 30 listener max consumes 9,492.188 Gbits or 1,186.523 Gbytes or 1.186523 Tbyes of data transfer per month.
Dark Dirty Tech Tribal. | Hands in air (trance) and feet on the floor (house).
Mar-07-2006 01:06
Swamper
Webmonstah
Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Toronto, Canada
Icecast (unix) is far superior to the version of shoutcast distributed to the public in terms of how you can tie in various plugins/code to it...
When I ran unknowntracks.com years ago (2001-2003) and had a java applet with an embedded real player it allowed you to click a button in the applet which would trigger an event within ices(streamer to icecast server) all via perl/shell script - made it easier to have a live version of which samples had yet to be ID'd/etc. It's a good alternative for a customized setup.
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IceCast. Know it? Use it?
