Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

Was wondering what the latest version of the KH build of icecast was? I'm running 2.3-kh20a.

A little background on what we're trying to do:

We want to use icecast to stream media (mp3) static files to users. These files are dictations and the users will be transcribing them. Probably the big hiccup here is we have to use WMP as the playback mechanism. We have the <fileserve> tag set to 1 and <ssl> is 1. Basically, right now anyway, it works like this: user logs into webserver. User requests a dictation to transcribe. Webserver authenticates user and, if there are dictations available, assigns one and passes the url back to the user's player (i.e., https://myserver.com:8001/assigneddictation.mp3). The user steps on a foot pedal and playback begins after some buffering.

The problem is that we need to lock the server down so that not just anyone can go to https://myserver.com:8001/audio.mp3 and listen to a dictation. Since we have to use WMP (it's actually not WMP per se but a player that was developed using the WMP SDK) we cannot do a https://username:password@....

Do I have any options here? Besides changing the player engine, that is.

Thanks a million!
David

[karlH]

first things first. kh32, check the web link on my profile.

The only other authentication method besides user/pass type combinations is the query arg approach. ie your system produces links like http://host:8001/content.mp3?session=abcdef1234 when the items you pass after the ? are generated your allocation system, icecast will then pass the mount setting to url auth listener_add as /content.mp3?session=abcdef1234 escape encoded of course. You can then do whatever check you seem suitable, IP, session key timeout etc.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Here is the icecast.xml file:

[code]
<icecast>
<location>USA</location>
<admin>webmaster@localhost</admin>

<limits>
<clients>100</clients>
<sources>2</sources>
<queue-size>524288</queue-size>
<client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
<header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
<source-timeout>10</source-timeout>
<!-- same as burst-on-connect, but this allows for being more
specific on how much to burst. Most people won't need to
change from the default 64k. Applies to all mountpoints -->
<burst-size>65535</burst-size>
</limits>

<authentication>
<!-- Sources log in with username 'source' -->
<source-password>hackme</source-password>
<!-- Relays log in username 'relay' -->
<relay-password>hackme</relay-password>

<!-- Admin logs in with the username given below -->
<admin-user>admin</admin-user>
<admin-password>XXXXX</admin-password>
</authentication>

<hostname>oscar.epbs.com</hostname>

<listen-socket>
<port>8001</port>
<ssl>1</ssl>
</listen-socket>

<mount>
<mount-name>/dictations</mount-name>
<authentication type="htpasswd">
<option name="filename" value="pwuser"/>
<option name="allow_duplicate_users" value="0"/>
</authentication>
<on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/stream-start</on-connect>
<on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/stream-stop</on-disconnect>
</mount>

<fileserve>1</fileserve>

<!-- set the mountpoint for a shoutcast source to use, the default if not
specified is /stream but you can change it here if an alternative is
wanted or an extension is required
<shoutcast-mount>/live.nsv</shoutcast-mount>
-->

<paths>
<basedir>/usr/local/share/icecast</basedir>
<logdir>/usr/local/var/log/icecast</logdir>
<webroot>/usr/local/share/icecast/web</webroot>
<adminroot>/usr/local/share/icecast/admin</adminroot>
<ssl-certificate>/usr/local/share/icecast/icecast.pem</ssl-certificate>
<!-- <deny-ip>/path/to/file-with-IPs</deny-ip> -->
<!-- <allow-ip>/path/to/file-with-IPs</allow-ip> -->
<!-- location of mime types files used for file serving -->
<!-- <mime-types>/etc/mime.types</mime-types> -->
<alias source="/" dest="/index.html"/>
</paths>

<logging>
<accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
<errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
<loglevel>4</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
<logsize>10000</logsize> <!-- Max size of a logfile -->
<!-- <logarchive>1</logarchive> -->
</logging>

<security>
<chroot>0</chroot>
</security>
</icecast>
[/code]

I must have something wrong here. I'm not getting any errors in the error.log I do not, however, get the option to configure/add users through the admin page either.

Any comments?

Thanks!
David