[icecast] Question

[Dave St John]

isnt RTSP Protocol real networks genius??
anyone??

Dave St John
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Neufeind" <stefan at neufeind.net>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] Question

<p>> On 19 Jun 2003 at 21:20, Arc wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:06:34PM -0400, Steve Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > > Right now I just have a link to an MP3 file and it does HTTP
> > > transfers of the music to whoever clicks on it. It is sometimes very
> > > slow and that's why they have offered to put in a streaming server.
> > > Do I just have the plain link to the MP3 file and the server knows
> > > how to stream it. Probably not. What I think happens is that you
> > > give a playlist of an .m3u file. I really don't want a play list so
> > > is it OK to just give one song for instance song1.m3u has the
> > > information that plays song1.mp3 through the streaming server.
> >
> > For this you don't need Icecast at all.  Icecast is for streaming a
> > radio, not for streaming individual files on-demand.
>
> Well, on the other hand it would make sense to use a streaming server
> for on-demand-streaming if you:
> a) use protocols like RTSP for reliable and dynamic transfer
> b) don't want to allow the user to download tracks
>
> But since you can't achieve these points with icecast2 (up to now)
> Arc is right you don't need a streaming server.
> (Hmm - maybe somebody works out an RTSP-plugin for icecast2? *g*)
>
>   Stefan
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