[icecast] a new directory service

[Rick Wilson]

Is Asymmetric the original developer for Icecast? heh sorry just caught the
last bit of the emails,  :)

----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Moffitt <jack at xiph.org>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [icecast] a new directory service

> > > type
> > > type of the stream
> > > ex.: audio/mpeg or application/ogg
> > >
> >
> > This would be confusing to the end-user just looking for something to
> > listen to. The average user doesn't understand what a MIME type is. I'd
> > suggest just something like "MP3" or "Ogg" instead.
>
> Note that this is information stored in the database.  Not all of it has
> to be presented as stored.  It's easy enough to map a mime type to MP3
> or Ogg.  But I think using the canonical type definition is a good thing
> at the lowest level.
>
> > > auth
> > > authorization string.  this is a md5sum of of some
> > > random data.
> > > ex.: echo 'jack at xiph.org|Jack Moffitt|password' | md5sum
> >
> > Now this I like. Using an auth string to authenticate yourself to the
> > directory server is a Very Good Idea(tm).
>
> It should stop almost all forms of misuse besides forgery.  But since
> there's theoretically no reason to forge, this shouldn't be a problem.
>
> > Personally, I'd also still like to see a quality indication of some sort
> > (22.1khz Mono, etc) along with the bitrate field. But that's just me
> > wanting detailed info. I do, however, think that some sort of "Location"
> > field would be good to have. You could tell whether a stream was in the
US
> > or the UK or whatnot, which would give you an idea of how good your
> > connection to the server would be.
>
> Ogg streams might also have video at some point (I hope to start testing
> this soon).  I'm not sure how best to store diveres info like this.  I
> assume fps, khz, channels at the very least.  I'm still trying to think
> of a really convinient way to store arbitrary things, so that the data
> is extensible, instead of having to put out a new version of icecast
> every time we want to add a variable.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> jack.
>
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