[icecast] Icecast & Liveice b.s.

Thu Apr 5 13:03:12 UTC 2001

I hope this is not too obvious, but you failed you mention the MP3 encoder
that you are using with Liveice.  If indeed you do not have an encoder, or
liveice is not pointed at it, then you will indeed get the liveice behavior
that you mentioned.

josh

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, john wrote:

> I have been fiddling with the darn thing
> for three days now, and i am at whits end. I dunno
> why it isn't working. Any help is so much appreciated.
> I am trying to use mpg123, liveice and icecast on
> my Alpha. It does not have a sound card. All three programs
> compile without any problems. If i did not know better,
> i just might a throw the alpha off the space station and watch
> it burn up on reentry.
> 
> i crank out ./icecast and it loads. e.g.:
> 
> [root at radius bin]# ./icecast
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Closing fd 3
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Parsing command line arguments
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Max number of open files: soft: 1024 hard: 1024
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Max number of open files raised from: soft 
> 1024 hard: 1024, to soft: 44 hard: 1024
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: add_authentication_user(): Inserted user 
> [radius:letmein]
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: add_authentication_user(): Inserted user 
> [singularity:letmein]
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: add_authentication_user(): Inserted user 
> [root:letmein]
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: add_authentication_user(): Inserted user 
> [john:letmein]
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Closing fd 4
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: add_authentication_group(): Inserted group 
> [radius]
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Closing fd 4
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: add_authentication_mount(): Inserted mount 
> [/admin]
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: add_authentication_mount(): Inserted mount 
> [/oper]
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Closing fd 4
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Checking directory /usr/local/icecast/logs/
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Checking write access for file 
> /usr/local/icecast/logs/stats.log
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Closing fd 4
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Looking for templates
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Checking directory /usr/local/icecast/logs/
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Using logfile 
> /usr/local/icecast/logs/icecast.log [fd 5] for icecast.log
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Checking directory /usr/local/icecast/logs/
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Using logfile 
> /usr/local/icecast/logs/access.log [fd 6] for access.log
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Checking directory /usr/local/icecast/logs/
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] DEBUG: Using logfile 
> /usr/local/icecast/logs/usage.log [fd 7] for usage.log
> Icecast Version 1.3.10 Initializing...
> Icecast comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> You may redistribute copies of Icecast under the terms of the
> GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
> Starting thread engine...
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Icecast Version 1.3.10 Starting..
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Runtime Configuration:
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Using nanosleep() as sleep method
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Using posix signal interface to block all signals in 
> threads that don't want them
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Using 64 chunks of 8192 bytes for client backlog
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Using linux own gethostbyname_r() and 
> getaddrbyname_r(), which is good.
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] System can create max 1024 threads
> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Starting Admin Console Thread...
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Starting main connection handler...
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Listening on host 192.168.1.3...
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Listening on port 8000...
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Using 'radius' as servername...
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Server limits: 9 clients, 9 clients per source, 
> 10 sources, 5 admins
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] WWW Admin interface accessible at 
> http://radius:8000/admin
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Starting Calender Thread...
> -> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Starting UDP handler thread...
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] Starting relay connector thread...
> -> [03/Apr/2001:17:59:20] [Bandwidth: 0.000000MB/s] [Sources: 0] [Clients: 
> 0] [Admins: 1] [Uptime: 0 seconds]
> 
> i can connect to it. i fire off liveice and it will load such that:
> 
> [john at radius liveice]$ ./liveice
> playlist
> 1
> opening connection to localhost 8000
> Attempting to Contact Server
> connection successful: forking process
> opening pipe!...
> writing password
> Killing children...
> Killing children...
> Killing children...
> Killing children...
> 
> umm. I check out all previous posts available on xiph.org and
> haven't come across any problems like my own. ANY and ALL
> HELP is appreciated. Is there a HOWTO for morons version on the
> net? I haven't come across anything that might shed some light
> on what might be going on her.
> 
> ja.
> 
> 
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Joshua Vickery
Grinnell College
14-21
Grinnell IA, 50112
vickeryj at grinnell.edu

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