Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Khoral]

Hi all.

I'm trying to use Ices 2 on my Debian with a live source giving me some A-law encoded stream (8 bits, 8 KHz), and Ices refuse to take it as a source (error is "Failed to set sample format on /dev/mysoundcard")

Is there a way to make Ices accept my stream as it is ?
Or do I have to change my stream to a 16 bits, 8 KHz stream ? (if so, how can I do it live ?)

Thanks for the replies, and please forgive me for my english, cause it's not my native language ^^

[karlH]

I don't think ices is geared up for 8bit audio. you should be ok with 8khz at 16 bits though.

karl.

[Khoral]

The fact is that, when I configure Ices in my ices.xml conf file, I configure an instance with 1 channel (cause the sound is mono) and 8000 as rate. That's the only two things you can configure in the xml for the source (then I can configure the encoder, but that's not the problem here).

So when I launch "ices2 ices.xml", it does nothing, and when I check the logs, I see Ices2 starting, then the error I wrote below ("Failed to set sample format on audio device /dev/mysoundcard : Invalid argument") and that's all :/
Seems like Ices can't transcode a-law to 8khz at 16 bits natively :/
Not really surprising when you look at the source code, cause it says :