[Icecast] dir.xiph.org : OPUS stream wrongly identified as Vorbis

[Philipp Schafft]

Good morning,

On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 11:46 +0100, Hoggins! wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> We started to publish an OPUS stream amongst others on our Icecast
> streaming server. That's cool, we're muxing it in an Ogg container, it
> works well !
> So this is just a remark : as the Icecast shows its type as
> "application/ogg", it may be the reason why the Icecast directory shows
> this as an Ogg Vorbis stream although it's an Ogg OPUS one.

Ogg/Opus streams are audio/ogg or application/ogg[0]. The codec is given
in the codec parameter[0]. It should be listed as 'sub type' on the
Icecast status page.


> Any idea how to correct this ?

Which (exact!) version of Icecast2 you run?
What is the URL to your stream? (you can also answer directly to me (but
keep general questions to the list) or ask me on IRC[1]) I would have a
look at it and see if the stream is valid.


> Also, it's worth noting that Icecast refuses to dynamically update the
> metadata update on such a mountpoint, responding "Mountpoint will not
> accept this URL update" / Return Code: 1.
> I know it's been quite difficult to allow dynamic updates for Ogg
> Vorbis, but hey, it's working. Whereas it's not with Ogg Opus.

This interface is only for ICY streams (MP3 and AAC). For all other
streams the metadata is to be send along the data stream as per codec
and mapping standard. The API only 'works'[2] for Ogg/Vorbis for
historical reasons.


Have a nice day. Looking forward to your reply,

with best regards,


[0] https://wiki.xiph.org/MIMETypesCodecs
[1] #icecast on irc.freenode.net
[2] It breaks many things like exact timing or bitrate efficiency. Just
don't use it.


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