Icecast Streaming Media Server

[brandedmedia]

Hey a tough question i guess..

Is there a way of making a default mount point on IC?

They seem like they have got a default one ..

As for this i can then get presenters to stream to their own mountpoint and our playout system will automatically stream the onto the default mount point on their scheduled times.

[karlH]

There is nothing to stop you from using / as a mountpoint, the sample xml files ship with / aliased to an xsl file so that a web page can be presented to a browser, it's convenient but you don't need that alias.

How you actually manage the slots between presenters is the question. You could have them all connecting to / as the mountpoint or you could allocate a mountpoint to each one and have / as a relay that can be moved around at certain times.

karl.

[brandedmedia]

The way our presenting works is perfectly fine

We have a playout system constantly broadcasting on a windows server,
that plays music and is scheduled to pick up the presenters from http://localhost:2030/first.last and then it plays it on the server which encodes it to the main mount point.. This allows us to also compress the presenters streams.

But even with a mount point as ' / ' it still dosen't display it when i go to http://ip:2030/

Thank you

[karlH]

[brandedmedia]

Right that cleared it up by removing the code from icecast.xml .. Heres the only problem that stands in its way.. How can i make it a folder and not a port,

So http://ip/folder not http://ip:port

Thanks

[karlH]

The default port for http URLs is 80, so you want to listen on that port.

karl

[brandedmedia]

Yes but isn't there a way of inserting the files into a folder then putting it under port 80 so that it can load up in a folder and not wreck the website as the website is hosted on the same server.

So it would constantly display it when you tried loading up my website

[karlH]

maybe you are mixing up what a web server does and what a streaming server does. Your last post seems to be asking a question about a web server and how that would provide web documents. There are no directories with streams

karl.