[icecast] Also.. Relaying

[Ian Andrew Bell]

I've been working with AudioActive the last couple of days to fix their 
behaviour... looks like they're going to update their firmware EPROMs.

What are the chances that Michael's fix below could be incorporated 
into a future version, so that all those boxes without the Firmware 
upgrade will work?

-Ian.

<p>On 10-May-04, at 7:20 PM, Michael Smith wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 11:28, Ian Andrew Bell wrote:
>> I also tried installing Icecast 1.31 ... the config file claims its
>> relaying capabilities aren't very well tested and I can verify this.
>> But now I'm concerned that even 2.0 won't work for me in relaying.
>>
>> I'm trying to relay multiple streams from a cluster these hardware
>> encoding devices:
>>
>> 	http://www.audioactive.com/products/realtime_enc/rte_ovw.html
>>
>> ...to do so you need to pull the file:
>>
>> 	http://hostname:port/l3audio.m3u
>>
>> In my case I've set up a test stream from one of these boxes at:
>>
>> 	http://56k.pulverradio.com:80/l3audio.m3u
>>
>> ...would anyone be interested in trying to relay this for me from an
>> Icecast 2.0 server to see if it works? 1.31 definitely doesn't.
>>
>
> There are two problems here:
>
> 1) Getting the actual stream URL. You've given a URL to an m3u file, 
> which
> CONTAINS the stream URL. Icecast 2.0 can't currently do this. Adding 
> it would
> be fairly straightforward, except... this server is seriously busted, 
> and it
> doesn't give a valid HTTP response. However, if the URL doesn't change 
> (it's
> http://192.246.69.155:80/l3audio.mp3 currently), you can just set up 
> icecast
> to relay this.
>
> 2) actually relaying the stream from that URL. This _should_ work fine 
> with
> icecast 2.0, except for one minor thing. The server sends it with a
> Content-Type header of "audio/x-mpeg". It should be "audio/mpeg", and 
> icecast
> doesn't recognise the x- form. Here's a simple patch (untested) that 
> should
> make it work.
>
> Mike
>
>
> --- format.c    (revision 6647)
> +++ format.c    (working copy)
> @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
>          return FORMAT_TYPE_VORBIS; /* Now blessed by IANA */
>      else if(strcmp(contenttype, "audio/mpeg") == 0)
>          return FORMAT_TYPE_MP3;
> +    else if(strcmp(contenttype, "audio/x-mpeg") == 0)
> +        return FORMAT_TYPE_MP3;
>      else
>          return FORMAT_ERROR;
>  }
>
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