[Icecast] Re: Question about HTTP headers and Icecast stream status

[Chris Nighswonger]

On 4/17/07, Rob McDonald <rob.mcdonald at nzpages.net> wrote:
> As far as live streaming goes.
>
> 404 = mount point down.
> 200 = mount point up.
>

Thanks!

> Its up to your application to analyze the audio data and decide if there
> is enough "sound" for you or not. What if there is meant to be a 5
> second pause?
>

I understand. We used SAM Broadcaster to source audio streams to
Icecast, Shoutcast, and Windows Media servers. I have had a situation
where the SAM process hung in such a way that the encoders were still
connected to the streaming servers, but no audio was being encoded on
them. It may be that I need to learn more about how the encoders work
in order to determine the presence/absence of audio data.

> I just use the 404/200 method in my scripts which monitor mount points,
> It's never failed me yet.
>

This is what I do right now. Thanks for the response!

Chris


> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 19:19 -0400, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> > Can anyone verify this for me?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On 4/13/07, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >  I'm working on a script to check the status of streams from multiple
> > > streaming sources (ie. icecast, shoutcast, wms, etc.). With Icecast I
> > > am looking at the HTTP header returned by the server when I do a GET
> > > on the mountpoint I want the status of. It appears that a HTTP/1.0 200
> > > indicates that the mountpoint is up while a HTTP/1.0 404 indicates
> > > that it is down.
> > >  Two questions:
> > >
> > > 1. Is this correct?
> > > 2. Does Icecast return a different value when the mountpoint is up,
> > > but has no audio (data)?
> > >
> > >  If the answer to #2 is 'no' then how hard would it be to hack the
> > > code to do this?
> > >
> > >  I want to be able to indicate three conditions concerning the stream
> > > status: up with audio, up w/o audio, and down (no source).
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> > >
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