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Not sure how much this adds to the conversation but... we have been
using mp3cast~ to stream our radio station to 2 shoutcast servers for a
few years now. Works very well. Occasionally it will cause the entire
OS to hang (happens less than 1x/month with our off-campus server and
never with our oncampus server) but it was more stable than darkice in
our tests as well.<br>
<br>
We use Jack for our connections. Our content scheduler is a hacked up
webcalendar, which triggers the content to be played via xmms (to be
replaced hopefully very soon by mplayer), then fed via jack-rack
through a compressor and limiter, and then sent to Pd for streaming.<br>
<br>
OT: but we also have a flash server/player solution which we find much
more popular than our shoutcast servers, and ours is the only
open-source web server I have seen actually work. It's an old version
of ffserver --- since 2006 or so that app has been broken for us at
least. Are there others out there? <br>
<br>
<a href="http://wsuir.wichita.edu">http://wsuir.wichita.edu</a><br>
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--John<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Ilias
Anagnostopoulos <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:I.Anagnostopoulos@sheffield.ac.uk">I.Anagnostopoulos@sheffield.ac.uk</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br>
<br>
I haven't seen the whole discussion about this, but from what I<br>
understand someone is using PD, mplayer and jack for streaming to an<br>
icecast/shoutcast server.<br>
<br>
I have used PD as a 24/7 source encoder/streamer, using mp3cast~, in the<br>
OtherSide project. This was a server that had PD running a synthesis<br>
patch which can be controlled by OSC through IRC and a bot listening on<br>
a chatroom there. It has been up for the past 3-4 months non-stop and<br>
with no maintenance within the University of Sheffield intranet.<br>
<br>
My initial experiment was to run PD through Jack and use Darkice. I'd<br>
patch the PD outputs to the Darkice inputs, which would then stream to<br>
the Icecast server. It didn't seem to be as stable though and it was<br>
more CPU-heavy than mp3cast~. I initially tried to do that cause I<br>
wanted to use other software apart from PD, but I ended up scripting the<br>
rest of the software and get their output in PD, which would pipe the<br>
output directly to the Icecast server. I didn't use a dac~ or jack,<br>
saving a lot of CPU resources.<br>
<br>
Any comments welcome, I'm still interested in hearing about ways other<br>
people do similar things.<br>
<br>
Take care,<br>
<br>
Ilias<br>
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