[icecast] Minimum specs

[William Goldsmith]

A P266 should handle encoding one 128kb stream without any problem -
anything more than that would be pushing it. 64 mB is fine.

-bg

> I'm not on the list so could you please reply directly. Thanks in advance.
>
> I'm working on a campus radio station and one of the things we want to do
> is allow bands to broadcast from anywhere on campus.
>
> The way we are planning on doing this is by giving them a Panasinc
> toughbook thats running debian and liveice. It would be taking in a live
> stream, encoding it, and sending it to our server running iceS.
>
> What are the minimum specs required to do the above? The only info I got
> on the subject was from a friend that said his p75 just barely played
> mp3's. How intensive is encoding?
>
> What are people's experience with slower machines? Right now we are
> looking at a P266 with 64mb. Is that satisfactory?
>
> Mikel
>
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