[Icecast-dev] libshout2 with aac

[Jamie Bullock]

On 17 May 2010, at 22:42, Romain Beauxis <toots at rastageeks.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

Ah OK, what should the mime-type be for AAC? I might be able to hack  
something.

Jamie