Icecast Streaming Media Server

Anonymous · Guest

I've been using Destiny Broadcaster for a while but thought I'd try IceCast and see how good it is. Destiny Broadcaster allows livetalk broadcast as well, I'm talking as live as talking on the phone to someone, except in this case your broadcasting to the people. Unlike Destiny, I don't know how to work this IceCast program. I do not have my own server, unless theres a web server option. Rolling Eyes

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

icecast is just one part of the setup, the part that deals with organizing listeners and streams. If you want something that creates a stream by mixing several inputs then you need to look for an appropriate source client, of which several are available.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

Which media streaming formats would work with it? just to be clear.

I know there's a Windows Media Player Live Format's (.asx) (mms://)
Which (NET) and (Traditional) Radio Station's use.

EDIT: Oh yeah wouldn't RealPlayer work, but how do I set it up to work with Realplayer.

IceCast is a free service right?

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

The core format we support is ogg (vorbis theora etc) but we also handle streams that can pass through like mp3 aac and nsv. WMA/WMV are not open and require special processing and are typically lower quality so we don't waste our time on trying to make that work. The same does for 'Real' streams however just because we don't handle their codecs doesn't mean the players can't be used with icecast. For instance wmp has plugins for ogg and handles CBR mp3 streams natively

Icecast is a freely available server, whether you want to run it yourself or pay someone to host it is up to you.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

Oh ok, so would RealProducer Basic 10 work with this server, if so I'm not quite sure how to get IceCast to work with it. I'm pretty sure I need (IP)access

http://www.realnetworks.com/products/producer/basic.html

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

to quote from the page you referenced

"converts live feeds or existing media into RealAudio and RealVideo files"

so no.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

ok so, than what would I use for Real Streaming?

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

well, I would say, someone who has access to the Real specifications so maybe Real.

karl.

Anonymous · Guest

I tryed Real, but couldn't seem to find a client.

Anonymous · Guest

Oh brother, I gave LiveIce a try and it gave me a blank icon with a "?" about the size. When I openned it, it openned notepad. I'm reffering to the following which you'll see on the geocities site below.

www.geocities.com/chwfm/uf

http://liveice.sourceforge.net/

Anonymous · Guest

Anybody? Oh yeah I'm running XP

Anonymous · Guest

finally, got something to work, ok now I have SAM broadcaster & IceCast 2 installed, now how do I get these 2, to work together.

Anonymous · Guest

pleeeeease, somebody. Rolling Eyes

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

wrt icecast, make sure it's running and that you know what the source password is as sam will require that to login and stream.
You can verify icecast is running and accessible by using a web browser http://IP:port/status.xsl. The documentation describes the tags in the xml.

I don't know the specifics for configuring sam as it's a product made by spacialaudio and not by icecast.org, but to connect to icecast2 you will need to supply a server IP/name, a port, mountpoint and a password.

karl.