Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Iv'e reading first time about streaming servers. I need a system which streaming from a line-in analog source (PC-soundcard) to a WLAN. The sound quality is secondarly: mono and 96 kbit are completly sufficient. The system should be work like the music in a supermarket but with WLAN instead any wires.

I think, the server needs a encoder to convert analog soundcard sources to a streaming compatible format. Real live streaming is essential for announcements over microphone etc. without preproduction.

On the client side, i want to use x86 hardware with VLC or WinAMP.

Can icecast do this? Remember, i'm a totally newbie on this theme.

Thanks for any suggestion.

[kozlov]

You can use Winamp, foobar2000. VLC - don't know if there's any possiblity. If you would like to use Winamp, take look at Oddcast - you can use it as plugin or a standalone program - in both case (plugin/standalone) you are able to broadcast from soundcard input. It's very simple. But take care of your source computer - it has to be fast enough to playback music and encode it to specified format.

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[Anonymous]

If i understand correctly, then Winamp or Foobar2k does grab from line-in, transcode it and saves to... to what? File? Then Icecast do stream the file (?) to network clients? If so, i think there can buffer underruns occur when the streaming server works faster than grabber/transcoder.

What is oddcast? A winamp-plugin?

[karlH]

oddcast is a winamp plugin that connects to icecast and provides the encoded stream

karl.

[Anonymous]

hello

Need to verify the "configure" whether using oddcast is same than using shoutcast.

I am using shoutcast, both the icecast are running/connected but when trying listening to another computer the link is not valid

please give me the valid link

[kozlov]