Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Cyborg994]

I have a need that does not seem to have been adressed often.

I have a specific client that needs to be able to login even when the max-listeners is reached on a specific mountpoint. The global clients setting is set higher, so it will not get in the way.

This is how I think I might make it work :

Way 1 :
With the kh branch (I already have it compiled, just need to finish the config to test), I want to set up a listener (which client to use is still unclear to me), which uses the relay username to login. That should override the max-listeners, at least in theory. Did someone try this before ? If yes, can I set a relay and realy password for each mountpoint, or is that strickly a global parameter ?

Way 2 :
Again with the kh branch (to allow the salve to connect even if the master is full), create a master/slave setup, and setup either the master or the slave only for these users, by not publishing it anywhere, probably on the same machine, but on a diferent IP.

Finally, if these 2 options fail, anybody has an idea to make it work ?

Thanks !

- Cyb

[karlH]

each listener client could be marked as a slave and therefore bypass those per-mount limits and that setting can be done either as a match against relay user/pass (as you have said) or via a response header from url auth (icecast-slave: 1).

The only other way currently is to do what the slave icecast does and issue a request like

GET /admin/streams?mount=/mountpoint...

This is what the kh slave issues to retrieve the stream and the master will see that request as a slave and bypass those limits (assuming authenticated). You can apply an authentication section on /admin/streams to allow for multiple usernames/passwords (url or htpasswd).

karl.