[icecast] connection problem

David Dennis dennisd at best.com
Fri Mar 2 20:55:40 UTC 2001



What version of linux are you running, and on what platform, and do you
run it 'headless' or is it running a desktop.  Just for my own
curiosity.  Also did you run from am rpm of icecast or did you compile it
for your platform.

                        

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:09:41 +0100 (CET)
> From: Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas at urgent.rug.ac.be>
> Reply-To: icecast at xiph.org
> To: icecast at xiph.org
> Subject: Re: [icecast] connection problem
> 
> > Hey there again
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > The tests I've done in-house were with winamp as a client, and the
> > > following server/streamer combinations :
> > > icecast 1.3.0/shout 0.8.0
> > > icecast 1.3.7/shout 0.8.0
> > > icecast 1.3.8b2/shout 0.8.0
> 
> I don't know what it is that causes shout not to work for other people.  I
> have 12 instances of shout 0.8.0 running for 45 days straight without any
> single problem.  All the problems I ever have had with icecast seem to
> have been on the client side.  Anyway, even in this setup there is no
> difference between the version with shout or with ices.  I can believe
> there are people having problems with shout, but for me it works perfect
> at the moment.  The people that are actually using the streams in
> production haven't complained for two months, so ...
> 
> > another thing could be your mp3s? Have you checked their integrity? Its very
> > important that they are 100% right go and fetch mp3check from freshmeat or
> > some other tool that will test their quality. Use cdparanoia when you rip
> > and lame when you encode.
> 
> The mp3's are created from 192 kbit mpeg-layer 2 mixes made by a program
> of mine which are then fed to mpg123 to go to the sample domain and then
> back to lame.  So I'm pretty sure they're ok.
> 
> That's one thing I should have mentioned as well : I'm streaming mp3's
> lasting 2 hours.  Is it possible that media player can detect this or not
> ?
> 
> Thomas
> 
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