[icecast] multiple liveice sources

William Goldsmith wildbill at kpig.com
Sat Sep 29 17:41:37 UTC 2001



Hey, Tim.

His problem was with liveice - which only allows one instance per directory
because it uses named pipes with hard-coded filenames - not with icecast.

> Hmm... I haven't had that problem with the KPFA servers.  I just
> run two different configuration files.  From my rc.local file...
>
> echo Starting local icecast servers
> /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast -c
/usr/local/icecast/conf/icecast.kpfa.conf -b > /dev/null 2>&1
> /usr/local/icecast/bin/icecast -c
/usr/local/icecast/conf/icecast.kpfb.conf -b > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:03:11AM -0700, William Goldsmith wrote:
> > The easiest way to accomplish this is to create a 2nd directory
containing
> > liveice & its config file.  You can't run 2 instances in the same
> > directory - their temp files will overwrite each other.
> >
> > Contrary to what others have written, liveice works just fine once it's
set
> > up. That's not always easy, though... :-)
> >
> > -bg
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kristján Guðni Bjarnason" <kgb at gangverk.is>
> > To: <icecast at xiph.org>
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:17 AM
> > Subject: [icecast] multiple liveice sources
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to stream two different sources with two soundcards using
> > > liveice and icecast, all from single Linux box.  Can anyone tell me if
> > this
> > > is possible?
> > >
> > > I tried creating two sets in the liveice config file where I specified
> > > different devices.  No erros but the latter source was streamed on
both
> > > mount points.  Running two instances of liveice talking to one
instance of
> > > icecast failed.  Icecast couldn't handle it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >   Kristjan
> > >
> > >
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