Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

Hi guys.

I'm using Ices 0.4 because I need to stream in MP3. Using the Python hook I'm able do some sophisticated things. However, since I'm running the programme on a relatively slow machine (Pentium III 500Mhz) I need something faster than Python but with the power and flexibility of a higher level language so as to be able access databases and so on.

As a result I've made the following improvements to Ices 0.4:

1. Added support for loading shared libraries written in C (or any other compile languaged) as modules supplementing the existing perl and python interface.

2. In the Python and C module interface, the playlist filename from the configuration file is passed to the module's ices_init routine. This can be used as a module configuration file and so avoiding hardcoding this stuff in the modules themselves. I didn't add this improvement to the perl interface only because I don't know how this works for perl. Rather than do it wrong, I left it out.

3. I've changed the version number to 0.5 and updated all the necessary configuration files so that ./configure will work with it. I still need to update the documentation to reflect the changes. It's now up to autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6

Who are the maintainers of the 0.4 branch that I can send the updated code? That's assuming they are interested. If not, I'll just put it on my ftp site and anybody interested can download it. Naturally, of course, there is no warranty and no support.

Cheers.