Icecast Streaming Media Server

[ZeroEnna]

Hi there,

first of all: I totally like Icecast and I think this is a big piece of ingenious software.

Now, I have a question concerning the config:

I use Icecast 2.3.2 and Ices2 on an Ubuntu 8.04 server.
Now, I have a problem that one off my DJs needs an MP3 mount point. I installed the OddSock Streamtranscoder. Now here is the tricky part.

The Transcoder is only to start when the MP3 stream/mount point is up.
Now how can I check the status of one single mountpoint in a linux shell script?

Please help me

Greets

ZeroEnna

[karlH]

write a custom xsl file, like status2.xsl which will output something which is easy to parse, say a single word like active and the shell script can use wget or curl to retrieve the xsl contents.

karl.

[ZeroEnna]

Okay, but how can I parse the content in a shell?

[karlH]

using sh, untested but something like

res=`curl -s 'http://host:8000/streamstatus.xsl?mount=/live.ogg'`
if [ "$res" = "active" ]; then
# do something
fi

as I said, make it really simple to parse, it does not have to be xml output

karl.

[ZeroEnna]

One last (n00b) question:
How can I set what is written into the xsl file? As you said, e.g. just a single word or so.

[karlH]

the xsl files are just text, have a look in your webroot directory to see the existing xsl files. You may find status2.xsl better suited to your situation.

karl.

[bbk]

i hope i am not totally off topic..

but could this post be a solution for your also.

i wrote these scripts for freebsd so they need to be changed for linux.

http://icecast.imux.net/viewtopic.php?t=2443
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