Icecast Streaming Media Server

[DoubleQ]

Hi Ice'y Dudes

Everything working fine on my server

But I recall reading some were, maybe in the forum or doc's (unable to locate it again)
That it is possable to return a stream location playlist (list of streams & URLs)
as the main mount, or as the fallback mount.

If im correct about this,, would someone be good enought to direct me
to the approiate section of the documentation, or previous [tread] post..
(an example would also be handy)

!: what Im attempting to do is create a stream cluster of multiple servers,
interlaced with each other.

So that the 1st item in the [returned[ playlist
would be the live-stream
and the others a list of locations/URL's [other servers] were simucasts are located.

The idea being, that if for any reason the "live-stream" is full or off-air
the clients player will in turn, attempt to connect to the [simucast] server streams.. !!


Regards 2xQ ( Double Q )
SwanSong Web'Radio [ http://www.swansong-webradio.co.uk ]

[karlH]

This would depend on what the setup was exactly. icecast cannot generate a playlist containing entries it knows nothing about, but you can provide your own playlists. If you are relaying all these streams then an xsl could be crafted to show all the stream links on your server. The YP could be used if it's a cluster of the same content by different servers, I even have some initial work on master/slave load sharing in my branch work.

karl.

[DoubleQ]

Ok karlH

Thanks for your answer.

Maybe much better if I provide an example..

in example here
there are 3 streaming servers, each located at different site's.
And each simucasting identical content.

The servers are:
66.100.200.1
77.100.200.2
88.100.200.3

Each has an uplink stream named "/live.ogg"


Each has a fallback file named "/redirect.pls"

The content of "redirect.pls" on server(1) " 66.100.200.1" is
a list of ALL stream locations/urls, with self url last

http://77.100.200.2/live.ogg
http://88.100.200.3/live.ogg
http://66.100.200.1/live.ogg

On server (2), is same list, but own URL last.
and again for server (3)


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Now what I hope will happen is

If a new listener attempts to connect to any server that has reached "<max-listeners>"
that they will be served file "/redirect.pls"

and depending on player playback settings (ie normal, random, etc)
This new listeners player will attempt to connect to each URL in the .pls list in turn.

That is my question


Regards Double Q
SwanSong Web-Radio ( Party until you drop )

[karlH]

you don't fallback to a playlist as a playlist is different from an audio stream. new listener redirection only works at the beginning of the connection so the fallback mechanism is not suited to that. Each server can provide a playlist as a pre-made file but maving something like that automatically made is still a work in progress.

karl.