[icecast-dev] spawning a source

[Melanie]

Hello,

On 2004.01.08 20:33 Rafael Jannone wrote:
> * Is there a simple way to make icecast spawn a process (to serve as a
> source) when a listener is connecting and no source is available?

Something close to what you're looking for could be accomplished with the 
series of patches I have recently released. The patches provide a fallback 
mechanism and a command execution facility.

So, a fallback source could be configured and you could pipe zeroes into it 
to keep it active, that would keep it active, permitting connections to the 
primary source.

Upon connection, the real source could be started by the connect command 
facility. When a listener disconnects, the disconnect command facility 
could extract the remaining listener count from the stats page and, if 
there are no more listeners, kill the real source again.

> This is part of my quest for reducing CPU hog when there are no
> listeners connected.  Of course, once the last listener is disconnected,
> there should be a way to kill the source's process, but that's another
> step :)

There is really only one thing that consumes a lot of CPU: the encoding of 
streams. This is not commonly done on the server machine, more often the 
server is hosted on a large bandwidth connection, while encoding takes 
place on the sender's machine. In that case, CPU load on the server is 
negligible when there are no listeners connected.

Melanie
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