[Icecast] Change bitrate

[Marvin Scholz]

On 23 Aug 2017, at 14:40, José Luis Artuch wrote:

> El mié, 23-08-2017 a las 14:13 +0200, Marvin Scholz escribió:
>>
>> On 23 Aug 2017, at 14:08, José Luis Artuch wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, good morning !
>>> Running Icecast2 and Ices2 with live audio from Line IN, what is
>>> the
>>> correct way to change the bitrate ?.
>>> In the Icecast2 configuration file I set:
>>>
>>> <mount type="normal">
>>>     <mount-name>/entzun.opus</mount-name>
>>>     <bitrate>128</bitrate>
>>> </mount>
>>
>> This option should not be used and does not do what you expect it
>> does.
>> Icecast can't change the bitrate, the source client needs to do that.
>>
> Thanks Marvin,
> I also made a test with the Ices2 configuration file:
>
> <encode>
>     <bitrate>128</bitrate>
>     <samplerate>44100</samplerate>
>     <channels>2</channels>
> </encode>
>
> But the bitrate did not change.

AFAIK Ices2 does not re-encode therefore it is unable to change
the bitrate.

>>>
>>> But it seems that is not enough since the bitrate does not change.
>>> Receiving the stream with Rhythmbox, after restart the server the
>>> bitrate is not 128 kbps.
>>> If required, how should I set the Ices2 configuration file ?.
>>> Thanks !.
>>> José Luis
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