Icecast Streaming Media Server

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

A crash will always drop all the connections. The question is identifying the crash which is why as much information is required, ideally in the form of a core file. win32 has always been restrictive on that but hopefully I'm getting something sorted to help with win32.

karl.

aoz1 · Joined: 05 Sep 2010 Posts: 6 Location: UA

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

kh30 is up on my site. It's mainly a bugfix release and small speed-ups here and there so a recommended update. As always feedback appreciated.

karl.

Mike Brady · Joined: 16 Dec 2011 Posts: 1

Hi Karl. This is just to say thanks for icecast-kh*. I'm experimenting with icecast on an Linksys NSLU2 running OpenWrt, and icecast-kh30 installs and runs very well, and is more stable and more predictable than release 2.3.2. I'm using it to stream MP2 radio streams from a Hauppauge DVB USB receiver stick using dvbshout.

Mike

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

np, barring any last minute reports, I'll have a kh31 up in the next couple of days.

karl.

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

ok. kh31 is up on my site. For unix users this is a recommended update. Less work is now done for flv listeners so helps load, and relay restarting from odd errors seems better now. Various internal minor speed-ups implemented like stats updating which should help in cases with many streams

For win32 users, you should be ok but I had a hard disk failure taking out my windows build setup and I haven't resurrected it yet. As VC was getting annoying, I decided to go for a mingw32 build which means different compiler and newer versions of the dependent libs are in use. This should not be an issue but obviously feedback is welcome. Users will notice a different installer (nothing wrong with the previous but it's not available on linux) and the GUI component is not built, not that it was of much use and most windows people use the service component.

As always, let me know of any issues.

karl.

robertut · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 156

Hi!

Can't seem to find KH31 version here, if this is still your webserver:
http://www.xiphicecast.webspace.virginmedia.com/

I need the Win32 version ASAP - KH30 behaves really bad when relaying.

PS: Happy New Year!

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

The link looks valid, and I am seeing downloads of the win32 build going on so it is being accessed but I haven't had any reports as of yet. The file name is slightly different may be that is the issue

http://www.xiphicecast.webspace.virginmedia.com/icecast-2.3.2-kh31_setup.exe

karl.

PS. likewise, and happy new year at all icecasters.

robertut · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 156

Thanks. Much better installer now, everything looks cleaner, service exe is also faster.

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

The win32 build is a kind of new setup this time, the compiler is different although gcc is is fine, and most of the work icecast does is IO so there probably isn't much difference on the compiler side of things. IPv6 should be possible as well if you can use that, and let me know how the relay side of things work out.

The win32 build does now use an API for scattered IO like the unix build does so if you have a large number of FLV listeners then that will be some memory copy work reduced. Last of all, the libs (xml2/xslt/curl) are updated, I can't say what sort of improvements they've had over the previous versions but that is also a point of where a speed-up could of occurred.

The gui build would need to be reworked, it's uses a lot of hardcoded elements and is specific to VC so for now it's off but in theory it could be made to work again, if people really want it.

I think I covered most of the bases for the win32 release, service add/remove and even the edit xml on the start menu, but let me know if there are any kinks to work out.

karl.

robertut · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 156

I used to use the GUI version just for testing. I don't think it's needed anymore, web interface is already very advanced so I guess most people are satisfied with that. Using as service is the way to go.

Maybe an icon in the startup menu as an internet shortcut to the web gui (eg. http://localhost:8000/ or whatever) would satisfy everyone who's dependent on GUIs.

robertut · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 156

Not too good this latest KH31 version...
many listeners are dropped (@around 2-3000 listener clients).

KH30 was nearly perfect - but it had relay reconnection problems.

What a pity. Nothing wierd in the logs.

robertut · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 156

Karl, could you please compile a KH30.1 version OLNY with this fix:

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

relay reconnection problems and listeners being dropped seems related. I do not think there is anything else in the patch that would drop that many listeners in one go which leads me to think what case led to the situation you experienced? I suspect a relay was terminating but what else happened?

karl.

robertut · Joined: 31 Aug 2007 Posts: 156

See this:

The top of the listener graph curve should be smooth (as the rising part is, between 02 and 09:30). Listeners complain that their connection drops often.

Previous KH30 was smooth. No complaints.