[Icecast] stupid user tricks with ices2: "No such file or directory" :P

[John Hebert]

Michael and Karl,

Thanks for your replies.

Sorry for confusing you with bad test info. The contents of
playlist.txtthat I referred to in my earlier email did not match the
log result I
specified. However, I had ran the test with both a full and relative path in
playlist.txt; "/home/john/Visitors.ogg" and "Visitors.ogg".

Got it working, however. Tried playing a different ogg file than
Visitors.ogg and it worked!!! If you want to test the file
Visitors.oggyourself:
http://www.archive.org/download/Shapeshifting_In_Abalone/Visitors.ogg

My understanding of the encoding section in ices2.xml is that ices2 simply
tries to output the given ogg file with the supplied encoding parameters to
icecast.

Question: The encoding parameters in ices2.xml do not have to match the
encoding bitrates for the played file, correct?

I assume the answer is no, as the ogg file that worked was encoded with the
same sampling rate as Visitors.ogg.

Thanks again for your help. I will be creating a streaming radio station
soon. Pumped!

John Hebert


On 12/9/05, Karl Heyes <karl at xiph.org> wrote:
>
> John Hebert wrote:
> > I must be doing something really stupid.
> >
> > I've read the docs for icecast2 and ices2. Icecast2 is running fine; I
> can
> > get stats.xml and see that it is running.
> >
> > When I run ices2, I get the following error in ices.log:
> > ...
> > [2005-12-07  05:37:51] INFO
> playlist-basic/playlist_basic_get_next_filename
> > Loading playlist from file "/home/john/playlist.txt"
> > [2005-12-07  05:37:51] WARN playlist-builtin/playlist_read Error opening
> > file "Vistors.ogg": No such file or directory
> > ...
> >
> > And I've made playlist.txt as simple as I can:
> >
> > playlist.txt:
> > /home/john/Visitors.ogg
> >
> > Yes, there is a file called Visitors.ogg in /home/john. I can play the
> file
> > just fine in Zinf.
> >
> > Does ices2 expect .ogg files to be in another specific directory? From
> > reading the docs, the path to the .ogg files are specified in the
> playlist
> > file.
> >
> > Any ideas? Suggestions?
>
> If /home/john/playlist.txt has full paths to the ogg files then the
> error message saying 'No such file or directory' would also have a full
> path, which the one above does not.  Make absolutely sure that you have
> the right playlist.
>
> karl.
>
>
>
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