Icecast Streaming Media Server

[HalNineThousand]

I want to use Icecast 2 (in Debian Sarge, but will soon be upgraded to Etch, then to Lenny when it's been out a while) on my server to broadcast the audio on my soundcard input through my LAN.

I've added this to my icecast.xml file:

[karlH]

I think you are confusing ices2 with icecast2. icecast2 is the server that your listener will connect to, ices2, like darkice, is a source client that creates a stream to send to icecast. You only need to add a <mount> section to icecast if you want to apply certain settings.

karl.

[HalNineThousand]

I could have sworn the section I read in the docs was in the Icecast2 manual because I remember thinking, "I didn't think Icecast did this. I thought you needed a 2nd program to do this. It'd be nice to do it with just one program."

I went back and looked and yes, it's in the Ices docs, not Icecast2.

Ooops.

I don't remember why I decided to check out Darkice after looking at Ices. Maybe I didn't like documentation or something, but it's working with Darkice and as long as it works, I don't believe in fixing it! So I'll stick with what I have.

I was just under the wrong impression and would have rather had one program running instead of two.

Thank!

[karlH]

There's two programs because invariably the machine with a lot of bandwidth for listeners (icecast) is in a different location from the machine creating the stream.

karl.