Icecast Streaming Media Server

Anonymous · Guest

dear , karl and other expert . i am facing problem with icecast . in my home i can play my embded radio . its work excellent but at my work and uni i cant get it work . because due to port 8000 blocking .

how can i resolve this issue .

i have so many free IP can i bind this port to any IP ??

i am using ices 0.4 with latest release of icecast server .

thanks

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

we don't force you to be on port 8000, it's just a commonly used port number. Just change the <port> setting to be on a port that is suitable for your situation.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

dear , karl thanks a lot for reply .

at my work any port is blocked apart from port 80 .

other day i was listening to radio which has address like

www.myradio.com/stream

how can i give this kind of address to my stram url

instead of www.myradio.com:800/stream

please advice

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

if port 80 is the only one allowed then you have to use that. If you are running icecast on a unix then you'll have to start as root (and use <changeowner>) so that you can access the lower port numbers.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

sorry for posting same topic again and again

just one thing karl

how can i have url like

www.myradio.com/stream

instead of www.myradio.com:800/stream

or 212.168.112.20/stream

without any port number mentioning

with windows media server its possible

jcr · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject:

basically, as icecast uses http streams, if you want noting as port number, you should configure your icecast to listen to port 80...
But, if on your server, a standard web server is also in use, you go to a nice clash between those...

When it comes to media streaming, specifying a port number such as 8000 is not only for pleasure, but the only way to prevent clasing with standard ports.
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Anonymous · Guest

so there is no way to do that .

use www.mywebsite.com/live

instead of www.mywebsite.com:8000/live

yes my server is serving as webserver

what is bind address .. excuse my lack of knowdlge in networking .

thanks for ur kind reply

Joy

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

urls for icecast streams begin with http:// and http uses port 80 by default so your stream links don't need the port reference if they are port 80

karl.

jcr · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

Sorry Karl, but as he admits the same server is also a web server, using port 80 for icecast would collide with web server, except with some very clever redirections, which sound off topic Smile

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karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

I as just talking about the default port for the url, not a limitation of the types of servers he can run. The OP may be limited to using a forwarding proxy for a certain domain.

karl.