[Icecast-dev] make giss.tv as slave

[Facundo Suárez]

2011/4/28 Christoph Zimmermann <nussgipfel at gmx.ch>:
> hi facundo
>
> Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:24:14 -0300
> schrieb Facundo Suárez <suarez.jf at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi all there.
>>
>> I am trying to set up an icecast2 server (wich is already running) to
>> send some stream mount point to another server. I mean, my server is
>> streaming at /radio1.mp3 mount point. We can listen it at
>> http://myserver:8000/radio1.mp3; so, i want to know if is there any
>> way to "clone" that strem and send it to another server, such as
>> http://giss.tv:8000/radio1.mp3
>>
>> I have been thinking about just use darkice to send some recivied
>> stream to many other servers, but i thought that icecast may have the
>> posibility to set up an "repeater" or whatever.
>>
>> Need some config in xml, just like:
>>
>>    <relay>
>>        <server>192.168.1.11</server>
>>        <port>8001</port>
>>        <mount>/example.ogg</mount>
>>        <local-mount>/different.ogg</local-mount>
>>        <relay-shoutcast-metadata>0</relay-shoutcast-metadata>
>>    </relay>
>>
>> but not for being a slave relay. Need to send to any other server (not
>> mine, can't configure, just have an account, mount pont, user, pass)
>> one of the streams in mine.
>>
>> Is this possible ?
>
> as i know, icecast can not do such things.

yes, James Scholes from this list said me icecast can't do it.

>
>> Just to be more specific:
>>
>> did you know, using darkice you can configure too many stream servers
>> we can send our "radio signal" (for example), well, i wonder if we can
>> make the same with icecast2. Darkice stream to any server
>> just knowing user, pass, mount. I need to do the same, but with the
>> streams on MY server. May be any other aplication do the trick.
>
> the kind of thing you would like to do is a really common task when you
> work with online radios. if it is to make a stream with a different
> bitrate or with a different encoding (or convert a icecast to a
> shoutcast stream...) it is basically the same.
>
> on one side, your software is a online radio client, receiving a stream
> on the other side it is a online radio source, sending the modified
> stream.
>
> for years i was using streamtranscoder from oddsock for this (doing
> exactely what i wrote above, nothing more and it was mature) but this
> project is now dead.
>
> for my current radio server installations i use liquidsoap
> (savonet.sf.net) to modify and clone my streams (it can do many more
> things). works stable with icecast and shoutcast, supports mp3, ogg
> vorbis, aac+ etc. and has a active community at the moment.

yes, i am already using liquidsoap, in gentoo, it is no (for now) in
portage repository, so, i had to install from the source by myself.
And it really works great.

>
> all the best
> nuess0r

Thanks for answering!

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