Icecast Streaming Media Server

Lewis

hello all,

i run mrtg to get statistics from my icecast server..

the strange is that from time to time, icecast stops, obviously disconnecting all clients ..
take a look at this graph..

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

if icecast stalls or crashes then you will get that sort of effect, but to resolve those sorts of issues, you would need to provide more information. For example how recent a version of icecast are you running and if it's not the latest trunk work then does the trunk code show the same behaviour?

karl.

Lewis · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 7:10 pm Post subject:

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

While graphs do have their place, they are not really helping much here as we are not seeing what is the trigger for the listener drops. Is there some significant event happening just before the drops occur? Any information from the log file may help. From the simple description and effect I would suspect a source/relay disconnection leading to listeners being disconnected, but that is only based on what information has been provided so far.

karl.

Lewis · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:51 pm Post subject:

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

so there was an interruption in the stream being received by icecast, eventually the source timeout was reached and then the stream terminated along with any listeners (assuming no fallback was active at the time).

karl.

Lewis · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:14 am Post subject:

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

The fallback to a file is commonly used and easily added with the fallback-mount/fallback-override settings, afaik you haven't set those.

The question you need to ask is why does the source stop and is that an issue for you? a network interruption, an IP change, a stall on the machine running the source client are possible cases for that sort of error.

karl.

Lewis · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:21 pm Post subject:

Lewis · Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:34 am Post subject:

well,
according to the manual, i added the following lines to my conf file..
but when i stop the sources, files are not playing...

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

The definition looks ok, but obviously we cannot tell from that whether the files are accessible or not. The log is the useful bit to look at now

karl.

Lewis · Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:36 pm Post subject:

well,

i found that the files were not in the right directory, i moved them and everything seems ok..

but the transition between the live stream and the static files is not seamless..
i have to press play again on my client (vlc).

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

If vlc is disconnecting then find out what it thinks the problem is. Maybe the file is sufficiently different from the stream

karl.

Lewis · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 2:06 pm Post subject:

hello,

i fixed the backup files, and transition is seamless now..

are there any settings to apply to get more performance ?
sometimes listeners send mail saying that stream is disconnected, or makes gaps..

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

The only significant settings that would affect disconnection are the queue settings. If you know the bitrate of the stream then you can work out how much can be store in the queue.

karl.