Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm running an Icecast server v.2.3.1 streaming MP3 with Ices to a KiSS player accepting only SHOUTcast formatted streams. This works fine with a little hack!

But the Danish Broadcasting Company streams webardio in WMA-format, and I would like to be able to hear it on the KiSS player. A way to do this is to pass it through Icecast.

An exampel of such a stream:
mms://wmscr1.dr.dk/e04ch10m or
http://www.dr.dk/netradio/Metafiler/pls/dr_soft_128.pls

(Content of such an .pls:
[playlist]
File1=http://wmscr1.dr.dk/e06ch04m?wmcontentbitrate=300000/.wma
Title1=DR Kultur
Length1=-1
NumberOfEntries=1
Version=2)

But how can I get Icecast to eat such a stream and output it like a SHOUTcast stream? Do I need to transcode it first, and if so, with what?

I am currently running the system on a Debian Sarge Stable Linux.

Regards

Henrik

[karlH]

You'll need to transcode it to something else befoe sending to icecast as wma needs special handling. What you transcode to is up to you, but if you want shoutcast to handle the stream as well then using ogg is out for you.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

Can you recommend a transcoder to Linux able to transform WMA to an SHOUTcast MP3 stream?

Regards,

Henrik

[karlH]

I only know of one self contained app for transcoding and that's is streamtranscoder on www.oddsock.org. Whether it does what you want I don't know.

karl.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunatly StreamTranscoder only handles mp3 and ogg..

Regards

Henrik