[icecast] Oddcast suggestion

[Dave St John]

Thats a damn good idea, client connects, player sends request, server
responds to dsp encoder says hey i need a stream, dsp says ACK ill send ya a
stream.

<p><p><p>Dave St John
Mediacast1 Administration
(720) 641-7586
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross Levis" <ross at stationplaylist.com>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:53 PM
Subject: [icecast] Oddcast suggestion

<p>> Hi oddsock
>
> What would be really useful is if your winamp plugin could monitor the
> number of listeners on the IceCast2 server and only send the audio when
> listeners > 0.  Perhaps the metadata could continue to be sent.  This
would
> reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are several
hundred,
> perhaps thousands of streams as planned by http://www.rville.com.
>
> It would also be very useful to me as I have a 5gig limit per month on my
> DSL which only allows me to broadcast for 14 days continuously at 32kb/s.
I
> could extend this considerably.
>
> What do you think?  Any possibility for the future?
>
> Regards,
> Ross Levis.
> http://xstream1.com:8616/soulfm.ogg
>
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