Icecast Streaming Media Server

[DJCoyote]

Hey all.

Long story short, i have the Icecast Server running with my own configuration, and i have the Edcast WinAMP DSP.
When i ran this thing roughly a month ago, everything was fine, ran great.


After a month i tried booting it up again, this time somethings off. I dont see the stream that Edcast is making, communicating with the Icecast server.
ive tried rebooting the applications in different orders and still to no avail.
The encoder in Edcast is "connected" and seems to be running fine, in and out of live broadcast mode
The server for Icecast is "Running" and has no problems.

But they arent working with eachother like they ought to.


Any suggestions?
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[karlH]

have you tried to look at the log files, if icecast isn't seeing an attempt then it is probably down to something else like a firewall or an IP change.

karl.

[DJCoyote]

I checke dout the log files, i edited the config file to make an error2.log file, this is what it says:

[karlH]

[2009-03-16 18:11:41] INFO source/source.c End of Stream /jagstream.mp3

If there was no timeout message before the above message then the source client just closed the connection.

karl.

[DJCoyote]

Sorry i probably should have mentioned that i manually hit "Disconnect" and hit "Start Server" again for demonstration purposes in case it was something along the lines of it sinitialization
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[karlH]

so as far as the information provided indicates, there is nothing wrong with edcast talking to icecast. There is a stream for listeners to connect on, if you are saying the listeners are decoding and getting silence then the problem has to be how you are capturing the content which edcast (eg mixer)

karl.

[DJCoyote]

[karlH]

I doubt the edcast settings will matter, as those will be the encoding and the server details and we've lready determined that that aspect is working. If the problem is down to the mixer then it's the mixer settings you will need to check, eg which input is being captured and at what level. Obviously the edcast forum should be best to cover that aspect.

karl.

[DJCoyote]

Ok so after giving up i uninstalled everything, right down to WinAmp, restarted my computer and reinstalled and restarted again.

It seems Edcast wants to connect but it cant. Where before itd connect and id get nothing, now it just Disconnects immediately and tries again a few more times.
I dont get it, like, i havent changed ANY of my network settings. my firewalls are off, the ports are forwarded, EVERYTHING is in check...


this probably isn't the place for it, but this is what Edcast is doing according to the logs:

[karlH]

well this is not really a question about icecast and you are best off talking to the developers or edcast but from the messages the keys things I see are

03/18/09 00:14:42 Info(MainWindow.cpp:706): Connected
...
03/18/09 00:14:42 Info(MainWindow.cpp:706): Disconnecting

so it's the source client causing your issues but I don't see the cause.

karl

[DJCoyote]

I just happened to notice that when following this tutorial: http://www.poromenos.org/tutorials/icecast (the tutorial i originally used to do this) my window looked almost identical to his when hitting the "Start Server" button,




but instead, mine looks like this:








Am i supposed to have all 0's for "source"'s?


Also, maybe the whole thing is based on this ONE fact;


If im NOT playing any music, Edcast remains connected, but still does not appear in the Source Level Stats. The moment i try playing anything (even if its my own created music and sound files, or even my voice using the broadcaster) it immediately disconnected itself.
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[karlH]

if you have a stream running at all then sources will increase with each stream and so will clients. The fact that they are zero means that the stream is not active. The log file will show this quite easily.

karl.