[icecast] Oddcast suggestion

[oddsock]

This kind of behavior (on demand live streaming) is not supported by either 
oddcast or icecast2, and honestly, really shouldn't be...In your situation, 
I'd consider doing something closer to what live365 did back in the day to 
address this particular issue, which is store all their content locally on 
their servers, and basically build playlists that are customed for each user.

I wouldn't count on oddcast to support the "connect and send audio when and 
only when a listener connects" type of logic, or icecast2 for that matter 
either, in the near or even far future....

oddsock
At 01:38 PM 6/21/2003 +1200, you wrote:
>Hi Dave
>
> > 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.
>
>I don't think the listeners player should send anything as that would
>require other Ogg players to follow suit.
>
>I was thinking of simply the OddCast plugin checking the IceCast2 server
>every 5 or 10 seconds to see if any player is connected.  Maybe it could
>just check the yp dir.  If there are no listeners then don't send audio.
>That would work, wouldn't it?
>
>Ross.
>
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