[Icecast-dev] libshout2 with aac

[Romain Beauxis]

Le lundi 17 mai 2010 23:36:53, Jamie Bullock a écrit :
> On 17 May 2010, at 21:07, Geoff Shang wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 May 2010, Jamie Bullock wrote:
> > 
> >
> >> I'm write an icecast source client and I'd like to support streaming of
> >> AAC encoded files.
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me if and how this can be achieved with
> >> libshout2/icecast?
> >
> > 
> >
> > I can't tel you as I don't know, but Ices0 can do AAC (IIRC) so you could
> > look there.
> 
> AFAICT, ices re-encodes the audio to MP3 before streaming. So we have AAC
> -> PCM -> MP3. Seems a bit of a waste of CPU -- 
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to stream AAC 'directly

No it is not because libshout cannot send a custom mime-type (content-type) 
header.


Romain