Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

First of all, thanks for a wonderful open source project!

In my setup I'm streaming Ogg/Vorbis audio from an MPD server to a mountpoint on icecast 2.3.1. In this mountpoint I've configured a fallback to a single Ogg/Vorbis file, and set fallback-override to 1. I've also added an intro file in the same format.

This all works wonderfully well; when listeners connect they get to hear our intro, followed by whatever is playing on MPD, or the fallback file if nothing is playing. But when I've got clients listening to the fallback file, and start playing something on MPD, things go wrong. In VLC the sound stops altogether, Mplayer starts playing weird gibberish. When MPD jumps to the next song, VLC resumes playback, but Mplayer keeps playing crap. I haven't tested in any Windows clients yet, but I can't imagine that being much better.

Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Tim

[karlH]

I can't see there being any difference from the content, but maybe vlc is having issues with the timing. A file is not regulated to realtime playback so vlc may be doing something weird like resampling. Try a fallback to a stream which is a playlist of the same file.

karl.

[Anonymous]

You mean create an m3u file pointing to my ogg file and use that as a mount point? I didn't even know that was possible. I'll give it a try.

[karlH]

the source client would not need encoding, so a simple ezstream world suffice.

karl.