[Icecast] reencoding experience

[Petre Bandac]

another solution would be to reencode mp3 files at the wanted bitrate
first, and then serve them via ices to icecast ;)

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:43:27 -0600 (MDT) Anno Domini, the honourable
Robert Muchnick wrote using one of his keyboards:

> On a Linux server (2.4.29) with 3.0GHz PIV and 1GB memory, ices 0.4 
> sending to icecast 2.2 on the same machine without re-encoding will
> not even touch the 1 minute load average in the normal kbps/KHz
> range. With re-encoding, however, the 1 minute load average varies
> between 0.7 and less than 2.5, which could impact server performance
> with high listener counts.
> 
> The files I was testing were not of the highest quality (although
> they were checked and repaired with mp3check) but never caused an
> ices failure even though mp3check couldn't repair truncated files
> with bytes missing in the last frame.
> 
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Petre Bandac wrote:
> 
> > hello
> >
> > anyone of you who has used the reencoding option of ices to bring
> > the stream at a constant bitrate would be kind to share the
> > experience (the impact on resources and, quoting the README file -
> > "...mpglib part of lame (what does the decoding) is rather unstable
> > and will call exit(0) when errors are encountered." - and stability
> > of the stream).
> 
> 
> Robert Muchnick
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