[Icecast] Relaying with Icecast - stand-by or active all the time?

Xabier Oneca -- xOneca xoneca+icecast at gmail.com
Wed Feb 20 07:48:49 UTC 2013


You can set globally with the <relays-on-demand>1</relays-on-demand> in the
global <icecast/> section, or you can configure per-relay with <on-demand>.

You can find it in the sample config file. (Does not say much more.)

Xabier Oneca_,,_
El 20/02/2013 08:39, "Satz Klauer" <satzklauer at googlemail.com> escribió:

> Thanks, but which parameter influences this behaviour? I could not find
> anything in description of relaying parameters...
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Xabier Oneca -- xOneca <
> xoneca+icecast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Satz,
>>
>> You can configure that behavior from the config file.
>>
>> Xabier Oneca_,,_
>> El 20/02/2013 07:58, "Satz Klauer" <satzklauer at googlemail.com> escribió:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>
>> I found there is a possibility to let IceCast relay other, existing
>> streams. But how is it working exactly when no clients are connected to my
>> relay server:
>>
>> - is it going to stand-by and not streaming andy data from the source
>>
>> or
>>
>> - is it pulling data from the source all the time also when no client is
>> available that could consume this stream? This would mean the relay would
>> consume traffic and bandwidth also when nobody will use it...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
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