Icecast Streaming Media Server

[danopia]

Hello. I've been using MPD and icecast for many months now for music around my house in OGG format. However, it's a real pain to start up my designed-for-win98-but-running-winxp PC and run foorbar2000 to play the OGG stream. I'm designing a tiny card that will start playing within a second of booting, but my issue is that it needs mono WAV and it won't have enough power to decode OGG files.

Any ideas/tips?

[karlH]

Not sure if it's really possibly to stream wave content (depends on the header), usually the bandwidth requirements is too excessive for wave but you could add something like OggPCM or even try to code up a wave handler.

karl.

[danopia]

It's a 100 Mbps wired network.

Would it be easier to try finding a way for mpd to do this or get icecast to do it, or use a diffierent server?

[karlH]

no idea, it's not something I've looked into, I suspect the OggPCM approach will be 2 functions in icecast for handling, but whether that is suitable for you I don't know.

karl.

[danopia]

Could you tell me how to get OggPCM? Would I need to compile icecast with a patch or something?

[karlH]

OggPCM is referenced on the wiki.xiph.org page. and yes a patch would need to be created and applied to icecast, just as it would for a wav handler

karl.

[danopia]

Cool. Oh course, it's like $60 for the chips required to put my microcontroller on the ethernet and putting out sound, so it's not like I'll have this all done tomorrow.