[Icecast] icecast2 sends metadata to clients but not actual stream

[Joonas Lehtolahti]

Hello,

I just installed icecast2 on Ubuntu 10.10 server from Ubuntu repositories.  
My intention was to use VLC on another computer to stream video through  
IceCast.

The problem is that the server is not sending the actual data to any  
clients. To find out more about what is going on, I increased icecast's  
log level to 4 to see debug data in error.log. And here's what it shows:

[2011-02-28  00:48:32] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_sent (211)
[2011-02-28  00:48:37] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_read (79572713)
[2011-02-28  00:48:37] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_sent (211)
[2011-02-28  00:48:38] DBUG slave/_slave_thread checking master stream list
[2011-02-28  00:48:42] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_read (79687225)
[2011-02-28  00:48:42] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_sent (211)
[2011-02-28  00:48:47] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_read (79795769)
[2011-02-28  00:48:47] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_sent (211)
[2011-02-28  00:48:52] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_read (80111064)
[2011-02-28  00:48:52] DBUG stats/modify_node_event update node  
total_bytes_sent (211)

As you can see, it's continuously reading more and more data from the  
stream source, but is not sending out anything. That 211 bytes there is  
the size of the metadata obviously, since it increases by 211 every time I  
try to connect with any listener (tried VLC and MPlayer). Those players do  
display the data such as stream title and description but stop at waiting  
for the actual content which is never sent from the server.

So, what's the deal? Why does icecast2 not want to send out the data to  
the clients waiting for it? Out of the maybe soon 100 tries I have managed  
to get the stream through less than 10 times, so it does work sometimes,  
but more often than not it just stalls there.

Thanks,

Joonas