[icecast] Oddcast suggestion

[Bryan Payne]

Yea,

It's VERY possbile to have the encoder sit idle until a User connects - we
do that with our WMA encoders and where thinking of applying it to mp3 and
ogg - however therein lies the problem - instead of PULL streaming you are
PUSH streaming - and the server MUST see a source connected otherwise it
will not allow a client to connect -

Bryan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross Levis" <ross.levis at cchlawbase.co.nz>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:32 PM
Subject: RE: [icecast] Oddcast suggestion

<p>I don't develop in C unfortunately, but I think I've thought of another
way of doing it for those using Winamp.

A DSP plugin could be developed to read /admin/streamlist to get number
of listeners.  If listeners is zero then zero the audio data.  Place
this in front of the OddCast DSP.  I'm not exactly sure what is possible
with a DSP plugin.  Someone else may know if the audio data can be
completely removed or does it need to output digital silence, which
should at least be encoded at a lower bitrate.

Anyone know?

Ross.

Michael Smith wrote:
> Icecast2 already supports relaying.
> It doesn't do on-demand relaying. The design is such that it
> should be easy to
> add, but I (and as far as I know, the other current
> developers) have no
> intention of implementing it in the near future. Patches are welcome.
>
> Mike
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