[icecast] Re [ogg]

[Raymond]

It Works!

It did not work before because in the trail and error of the setup 
without documentation the the guy in the dark moved the web directory 
from icecast to icecast2 and forgot to make the change in the 
icecast.xml file before you turned the light on.

Thanks for all your patience and help. I'll make a tutorial from your 
fine advice and make it available on the LPBN. I'll also make make 
mention of your great support to RMS when I email him back.

Raymond

Moritz Grimm wrote:

>Raymond wrote:
>  
>
>>I guess as a mercy plee for help I'll mention why I need to have the
>>static ogg files play as the mp3 static files play with icecast1. I'm
>>    
>>
>
>I don't know how Icecast1 did it (I never used it other than trying for
>a day years ago). Anyways, Icecast2's file serving is pretty
>self-explanatory. Have <fileserve>1</fileserve> somwhere within your
><icecast> directive, and your <webroot> will be accessible by the world
>through Icecast2, which now acts as a dumb and simple web server. You
>*still* have to create your own .m3u files like I explained for Apache,
>though (at least with the binary I compiled on Aug 28th).
>
>But then, I really don't understand what you need Icecast for. Apache
>can do on-demand http streaming of every possible format that supports
>streaming "by accident". And yes, Icecast's 'stream' is also just a
>'download'. Even when you connect to an ices2-served mountpoint, it's
>nothing else than a slow, theoretically unlimited download by your
>player that instantly plays what it gets. It's never been different.
>
>What you get from Icecast2's fileserve is (without the --s):
>--
>HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>Content-Type: application/x-ogg
>
><insert_requested_ogg_here>
>--
>
>That looks awfully close to what Apache gives (I explained how to make
>it send the correct MIME type in the other mail). My Apache uses HTTP
>1.1 and it sends a few more server related http fields filled out. The
>.ogg, however, is entirely the same. When I connect to a "real" stream,
>Icecast2 also sends ice-* fields for the stream meta data. However, this
>meta data is only stream related - song related meta data, like ARTIST
>and TITLE come with the .ogg and therefore get updated independently
>with every new .ogg header that gets sent.
>
>So, my question is "What do you want and why don't you pick the right
>tool for the purpose, respectively?" What did Icecast1 do different?
>
>
>Moritz
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