Icecast Streaming Media Server

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Where would i find the mountpath, for icecast

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

the mountpoint can be anything you wish, however certain players require certain extensions for some formats eg /live.ogg for ogg vorbis.

karl.

hpg4815 · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 22

WHere do you actually define the mount point in the icecast config, and how does it tie to the mount point in the source client config? I think if I can get this information I would be able to solve the connection failures b/n the 2.

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

native icecast2 source clients will send a mountpoint top match against, shoutcast source clients don't so in those cases you have to specify the mountpoint to use in the listen-socket definitions.

karl.

hpg4815 · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 22

<listen-socket>
<port>8000</port>

<bind-address>128.186.128.142</bind-address>

</listen-socket>

I'm not using shout-cast for anything. I just want to stream from the input jack on the sound card.

hpg4815 · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 22

This is the error when running ices ice.xml

EROR stream/ices_instance_stream Failed initial connect to voice.wvfs.fsu.edu:8000 (Login failed: Unknown error: 0)

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

That message would indicate that you are using an icecast capable source client so the mountpoint reference must be in the ices configuration file. Check to see if there are any failed attempts logged in the icecast log files because if there isn't then you probably have a firewall blocking that address.

karl.

hpg4815 · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 22

Hi,

No streaming yet, logs suggest that I am making a connection, but that's it. What can I provide you in order for you to point me in the right direction? The logs for icecast2 and ices do not produce any errors. Unless I am missing something. ices.xml is set to 4 for the highest debugging; Let me know what you need in order to point me in the right direction?

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

If icecast is really rejecting the source client then it will say why, what makes you think it's actually connecting?, because you don't sound too sure. Does a browser on the ices machine access the status page using the same address?

karl

hpg4815 · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 22

Hi thanks for the reply,

voice# tail -f /var/log/icecast/error.log
[2009-02-16 21:32:49] INFO sighandler/_sig_die Caught signal 15, shutting down...
[2009-02-16 21:32:49] DBUG connection/_handle_connection Connection thread done
[2009-02-16 21:32:49] INFO main/main Shutting down
[2009-02-16 21:32:50] INFO fserve/fserve_shutdown file serving thread stopped
[2009-02-16 21:32:50] DBUG slave/slave_shutdown waiting for slave thread
[2009-02-16 21:32:50] INFO slave/_slave_thread shutting down current relays
[2009-02-16 21:32:50] INFO slave/_slave_thread Slave thread shutdown complete
[2009-02-16 21:32:50] INFO auth/auth_shutdown Auth shutdown
[2009-02-16 21:32:50] INFO yp/yp_shutdown YP thread down
[2009-02-16 21:32:50] INFO stats/stats_shutdown stats thread finished

[2009-02-16 21:34:30] INFO main/main Icecast 2.3.2 server started
[2009-02-16 21:34:30] INFO yp/yp_update_thread YP update thread started
[2009-02-16 21:34:30] INFO connection/get_ssl_certificate No SSL capability on any configured ports

voice# /usr/local/bin/ices ices.xml
[2009-02-16 21:36:01] INFO ices-core/main IceS 2.0.1 started...
voice# [2009-02-16 21:36:01] INFO input-oss/oss_open_module Opened audio device /dev/dsp at 2 channel(s), 44100 Hz
[2009-02-16 21:36:01] INFO input-oss/oss_open_module Starting metadata update thread
[2009-02-16 21:36:01] INFO signals/signal_usr1_handler Metadata update requested
[2009-02-16 21:36:01] WARN metadata/metadata_thread_signal Failed to open file "test" for metadata update: No such file or directory
[2009-02-16 21:36:01] INFO audio/resample_initialise Initialised resampler for 2 channels, from 44100 Hz to 44100 Hz
[2009-02-16 21:36:01] INFO encode/encode_initialise Encoder initialising in VBR mode: 2 channel(s), 44100 Hz, quality 0.000000
[2009-02-16 21:36:01] INFO stream/ices_instance_stream Connected to server: voice.wvfs.fsu.edu:8050/example1.ogg

<icestats>
<admin>icemaster@localhost</admin>
<client_connections>8</client_connections>
<clients>2</clients>
<connections>10</connections>
<file_connections>7</file_connections>
<host>voice</host>
<listener_connections>0</listener_connections>
<listeners>0</listeners>
<location>Earth</location>
<server_id>Icecast 2.3.2</server_id>
<server_start>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:34:30 -0500</server_start>
<source_client_connections>1</source_client_connections>
<source_relay_connections>0</source_relay_connections>
<source_total_connections>1</source_total_connections>
<sources>1</sources>
<stats>0</stats>
<stats_connections>0</stats_connections>
−
<source mount="/example1.ogg">
<audio_bitrate>64000</audio_bitrate>
<audio_channels>2</audio_channels>
<audio_info>samplerate=44100;channels=2;quality=0%2e00</audio_info>
<audio_samplerate>44100</audio_samplerate>
<channels>2</channels>
<genre>College Radio</genre>
<ice-bitrate>64</ice-bitrate>
<listener_peak>0</listener_peak>
<listeners>0</listeners>
<listenurl>http://voice:8050/example1.ogg</listenurl>
<max_listeners>unlimited</max_listeners>
<public>1</public>
<quality>0.00</quality>
<samplerate>44100</samplerate>
<server_description>voice</server_description>
<server_name>WVFS LIVE</server_name>
<server_type>application/ogg</server_type>
<server_url>http://voice.wvfs.fsu.edu</server_url>
<slow_listeners>0</slow_listeners>
<source_ip>128.186.128.142</source_ip>
<stream_start>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:36:01 -0500</stream_start>
<subtype>Vorbis</subtype>
<total_bytes_read>226792</total_bytes_read>
<total_bytes_sent>0</total_bytes_sent>
<user_agent>IceS 2.0.1</user_agent>
</source>
</icestats>

Should I be using the section about the advanced mount point, or is the above mount good enough. Also, do you know how I can determine what type of stream I'm getting? Should I not be using ogg? Perhaps I need MPEG. Its live data from the DJ booth. Icecast was running on this before, using liveice as the source client.

Let me know if you desired the admin password. I am not concerned about security, because I can just wipe out the OS and reinstall everything if need be.

Thanks, really looking forward to your response.

Hiram

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

The ices messages are reporting that you have resample enabled when you should not have. It also reports that you are connected and streaming. The url on the stats indicates that you have <hostname> set incorrectly (http://voice:8050/example1.ogg). Fix those and you should be fine.

karl.

hpg4815 · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 22

can you listen? Winamp reports "error syncing to stream" for me.

hpg4815 · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 22

it is streaming! but no sound. I will need to check a few things out at the station. I will let you know. Thanks!!!

hpg4815 · Joined: 10 Feb 2009 Posts: 22

yeah. no sound. I verified the sound card put out sound. is there anything that needs to be done differently when it comes to live broardcast? do I need to configure darkice.cfg? and start it? Thanks again. I am in allot better shape then before.

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

if the source client is capturing from a dsp and there is only silence then you need to look into the mixer settings. I can confirm that ogg123 only receives silence. The "error syncing to stream" message will be a codec problem in the player.

karl.