Icecast Streaming Media Server

estens · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 6

I'm really new to both Linux and icecast so forgive me if someone has gone through this all before.

I'm trying to set up an Icecast server that takes an Internet Radio stream, then broadcasts it to an internal network.

the idea is that instead of having 10 people connect to the same radio station on their PC's, i use Icecast to create the connection, then get the users to connect to Icecast to hear the radio station.

The radio station's stream is an .asx file, and i was wondering if that was supported?

I'd also love as much information available on how to do this. I've found a tutorial (linked below) only i adapted it for CentOS 5.3, now I've just got to work out the particulars of how to set it all up.

http://www.linuxhelp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8226&pid=27924&st=0&#entry27924

Thanks in advance for any advice that you can give me to get this working Smile

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

asx is not a stream format, but you should be able to find the stream from within that file.

karl.

estens · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 6

i've managed to find the URL for the stream out of the asx file, however, i still cannot get it to connect to the icecast server to connect.

http://a1512.l4412545511.c44125.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1512/44125/v0001/reflector:45511

My Error log shows

[2010-02-11 11:17:02] INFO main/main Icecast 2.3.2 server started
[2010-02-11 11:17:02] INFO stats/_stats_thread stats thread started
[2010-02-11 11:17:02] INFO fserve/fserv_thread_function file serving thread started
[2010-02-11 11:17:02] INFO yp/yp_update_thread YP update thread started
[2010-02-11 11:17:02] INFO connection/get_ssl_certificate No SSL capability on any configured ports
[2010-02-11 11:17:03] INFO slave/start_relay_stream Starting relayed source at mountpoint "/music"
[2010-02-11 11:17:03] INFO slave/open_relay_connection connecting to a1512.l4412545511.c44125.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1 512/44125/v0001/reflector:45511
[2010-02-11 11:17:03] WARN slave/open_relay_connection Failed to connect to a1512.l4412545511.c44125.g.lm.akamaistream. net/D/1512/44125/v0001/reflector:45511
[2010-02-11 11:17:05] INFO sighandler/_sig_die Caught signal 15, shutting down...
[2010-02-11 11:17:05] INFO main/main Shutting down

the code i've used to configure the relay is:

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

That link looks like an ASF stream. A format that is not supported.

karl.

estens · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 6

Dang it. I really liked the look of icecast.

Can you recommend another program that will do what i am trying to accomplish?

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

What you want is the on-demand relay feature in icecast, but you can't have asf streams, but you can have any icecast or shoutcast stream relayed. You could try to transcode those other asf streams to vorbis or mp3/aac with something like vlc but it depends on what restrictions you want to place on the setup

karl.

estens · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 6

the same website/radio station also offers an MP3 stream in the format of http://<ip address>:8060/file.mp3. If i was to use this instead of the other stream would this be the same as setting up relay server?

When i set it up, the server seemed to connect, but the clients failed to connect to the ogg file?

EDIT: I got it working, cheers for you help/advice... much appreciated.

rec91402 · Joined: 14 Nov 2009 Posts: 32

estens · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 6

first i got the url of the stream that was in this format

http://<ip_address>:<port>/<file>.mp3

i took that and filled in the relay section to suit it.

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

I would avoid changing the extension, to indicate a different format. mp3 is not ogg and certain players will assume an extension of .ogg means an ogg stream but in fact you are relaying mp3.

karl.

estens · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 6

cool, that may account for a few issue's i'm having on a few clients on my end... cheers.

after changing the local-mount to be file.mp3 instead of file.ogg the stream couldn't connect. am still investigating as to why, but at this stage having it set to .ogg seems to work as long as the clients are using vlc (which most of us use anyway)

rec91402 · Joined: 14 Nov 2009 Posts: 32

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

the xml fragment is correct but "Could not find the file" does not look like an icecast message, maybe you are talking to a different server. I would of thought you would get a "Not available" message from icecast. As always check the error log.

karl.