[icecast-dev] mountpoint fallback support

[Melanie]

Hi,

I don't see a need to reload the XML file. You can have one that defines 
all possible mountpoints at once loaded at all times.

Mea culpa, I still haven't finished the docs. Fallbacks can be chained and 
Icecast will walk the chain and collect fallback listeners.

So, you can define it like this:

Master mountpoint, fallback is slave 1

Slace 1, fallback is slave 2

etc...

Any higher mountpoint will preempt all lower ones. Listeners will always 
connect to the master mountpoint, which is the only one publicly known.

Melanie

On 2004.03.18 22:00 Gnosis wrote:
> I just was looking at the CVS nightly build of the icecast2\src\source.c
> and see that the mountpoint fallback is now implemented (compared to the
> 2.0.0 release's source.c)
> 
> I was hoping to use this feature to support a multi-home radio station
> that has a master mountpoint stream and offsite "guest" mountpoints.
> These guest mountpoints would attach on a scheduled based and,
> theoretically, the main mountpoint would stop broadcasting so the guest
> mountpoint would take over.  Then, when the main mountpoint would want to
> regain control, start it's stream back up and a switchover from the
> fallover to the main mountpoint would occur.
> 
> Would this work?  If not, would it be hard to change the code to do this?
> I figure the hard part would be to dynamically load different XML config
> files for changing the guest mountpoints.
> 
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