Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi,

i am working for a scientific Project (Language Analysis). We always use big speech recordings, and we cant send them to the client. So we need some Streaming technology. We already decided to use a Player build up with Macromedia Flash.

So heres my question:

1. Can Icecast provide the client a detail (cut-out) from the MP3, when the client send a request like: "Play me the example.mp3 10 seconds, starting with second 535". With http of course.

2. Can I request such a Stream with Macromedia Flash from Icecast server?

3. Can I install Icecast on a Solaris System?

If this all is not possible: Can you tell me a possible other Solution for this all?

regards,
Jascha

[karlH]

1. The fserve engine will handle downloads from certain byte postions, for anything more involved like creating a per-listener stream will require some source client app.

2. Flash AFAIK can only handle mp3 (and that is poorly) but whether it can do request ranges I cannot say.

3. If icecast doesn't run on solaris then by all means let us know, it's not a platform we have access to be make sure but nothing should prevent it working on solaris.

karl.

[Anonymous]

[karlH]

1. The fserve engine is just the straight file serving code, typically used for getting hold of the xsl/xml related files, but can be used for transferring media files.

2. There are various players for ogg, often they are plugins tocommon players (winamp/xmms/real/helix/vlc/wmp and java based players). Whether they are customisable enough for yourself I can't say.

karl.