Icecast Streaming Media Server

[cmodyssey]

Hi,

Is there a way of getting information about if a source is slow on the /admin page or any page in fact?

I notice that the /admin page shows the number of slow listeners, but I can't find anywhere about slow sources.

Please could someone let me know if this it possible or not.

Thanks,

Richard.

[karlH]

If you mean a global count of sources that timed out then there isn't one, one could be added without much trouble if it is useful. Any per-source tally will be useless as that would disappear on exit. The kh tree does have an incoming_bitrate stat for each source, that could be useful for checking whether the stream is at the expected rate.

karl.

[cmodyssey]

Hi Karl,

Thanks for getting back to me.

I suppose what I am looking for is a flag, let's call it the "slow flag" for example. This flag's default value is to be unset and that as soon as a source is slow, the flag gets set. If the source then gets back to speed, leave the flag set.

The way we use icecast, is that a source will be connected on average for 2 hours. Once a source disconnects and a new source connects, the "slow flag" would reset, because the source has not had a chance of going slow.

I'm imagining this flag to be on a per mount point basis.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,

Richard.

[karlH]

I understand what you mean but does not seem that useful. Any significant stall would be trapped by the timeout and a termination, a lower than expected bitrate is subject to parsing the correct details which can be difficult.

karl.