[icecast] [Newbie Q] Relay to an Icecast server apparently not relaying?

[Robert]

Thanks Geoff. That got it.
I started with a new conf file for icecast from icecast.conf-dist, and set
up a relay.
http://ruby.chalmers.com.au:8000/4qir

and presto - it all working. Even SAM appears to see it now, giving be
correct listener stats.

That mountpoint bit has me foxed. very tricky.

Thanks
Robert

> Hi:
>
> Let me see if I understand what you're doing.  You're using winamp (or
> whatever) to stream to a shoutcast server which pushes a relay on to
> live365 (or live365 pulls from shoutcast, same deal really).  Now you've
> got a second winamp with samcast trying to pull shoutcast or live365 and
> pass it to icecast.  Is that right?
>
> OK.  Firstly, there is no source connecting to icecast.  The login you are
> seeing is an admin login.  Now, this plugin might do that for some reason,
> but the fact remains that there's no actual source.  This is why the
client
> gets kicked as in the error message.
>
> I don't know SAM so I can't comment there, and that would appear to be
> where your problem is since it looks like it's not even trying to connect
> as a source.
>
> Having said all that, you can get icecast itself to pull a relay by
> aliasing a mountpoint to the remote stream.  The neat thing about doing it
> this way is that (A) you don't need another source to do the relaying and
> (B) icecast doesn't pull unless there's one or more clients to listen to
> it.
>
> The format for aliasing is:
>
> alias <mountpoint> <A HREF="http://<server">http://<server</A>>:<port>
>
> for example:
>
> alias relay http://shoutcast.myserver.com:8000
>
> Will give anyone who connects to your machine on the /relay mountpoint the
> stream that can be heard at http://shoutcast.myserver.com:8000.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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