Re: Internet Radio Broadcasting ...?

["Brian Schau" <brian.schau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi - I wasn't aware of the DNAS plugin!   It looks promising.  I can certainly
live with a 10 seconds delay :-)

Thanks for the input!

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:43 PM,  <deppy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you use SHOUTcast you can choose to stream pre-recorded mp3s via a
> windows or linux server, or you can do real-time streaming via the SHOUTcast
> DNAS plugin on winamp.  The system encodes in real-time to MP3 or AAC+.  You
> can get away with decent quality AAC+ streams at 64kbit or ok quality MP3
> streams at 128-160kbit.  Doing AAC+ limits you to streaming to only certain
> media players though.  So a lot of people will usually set up both an AAC+
> and an MP3 stream so that they can cut bandwidth costs for those who have
> winamp/vlc/mplayer/etc installed.
>
> The SHOUTcast DNAS plugin for winamp doesn't care what the source of the
> broadcast is, you can select line-in, soundcard, files, etc.  I think there
> is about a 10 second delay caused by encoding + transmission to the
> SHOUTcast server.
>
> Hope that helps point you in the right direction a little.
>
> --Michael
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Schau <brian.schau@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 5:24 am
> Subject: Internet Radio Broadcasting ...?
>
> Hiya,
>
>
>
> So, I am faced with this challenge ...     Create a server running
>
> Apache2 on linux.  The server will host a webpage with a link
>
> to a radio stream.    When an internet user clicks on the link the
>
> users media player should open and start stream the audio
>
> content.   Format here is undecided, so whatever fits the bill ... :-)
>
> The above is probably the easy part - now the hard part.
>
> On the "inside" there will be one speaker who will speak in a
>
> microphone (preferably on a Windows platform :-/) and the resulting
>
> mp3 stream (or whatever, format is undecided) should be streamed to
>
> the internet using the above (or similar) setup.
>
> All this should be done preferably in realtime.
>
>
>
> I've looked at icecast but I am not sure it is the best way to go as I
>
> don't know who "realtime" it can be made?   I am pretty
>
> sure that the windows client can record to mp3 but what will happen if
>
> the speaker pauses and icecast reaches the
>
> current end of the file?   Will it break the connection to the clients?
>
>
>
> Are there better systems than this?
>
>
>
> ... and are this list the best list to ask these kind of questions?
>
>  (Linux Admins seems to be sensible and knowledgeable
>
> dudes, so I will take my chance here  ;-)
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
>
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