[Icecast] Icecast Newbie Questions

[Geoff Shang]

Anton Krall wrote:

> Nice! Im running linux... So ices for the backup streams and resampled to a
> lower bps.... Now I just need to figure out how to limit the bps of the live
> source... Maybe using 2 icecast and streamtranscoder right?
> Ice 1 (private ice) -> transcoder -> ice 2 (public ice)

Well, it'll be another encode stepso there may be some quality loss, but 
yeah that would do it.  Or you could use a separate mountpoint on your 
single server, but if bandwidth is really an issue then I can see why the 
two server route would be the way to go.

Geoff.