[Icecast] can icecast broadcast in SPEEX format?

Karl Heyes karl at xiph.org
Thu Feb 17 17:45:25 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 02:42, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Speex does belong to the Xiph family of codecs.
> 
> My understanding is that Icecast can stream Ogg Speex.  I'm not aware of 
> any streamers that can stream it to Icecast though.  I would think that at 
> least Ogg123 (compiled with Speex support) and Illiminable's DirectShow 
> filters would be able to play this, and perhaps some other apps as well.

The current trunk/release code doesn't handle Ogg Speex, it should
filter the speex stream out.  Getting it to stream is not a big problem,
I have it under my branch currently

> I'm particularly interested in knowing if there's anything can stream a 
> Speex source to Icecast.

libshout trunk can send it, although I don't think it's timed just yet.

karl.





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