[Icecast] Education - 1, 000s, 100, 000's, Millions of listeners. (What kind of infrastructure)

[Wayne Barron]

gARetH
My plans are to have live DJs in the future.
Will ffmpeg work with live DJs?
I know the Liquidsoap does.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 9:24 AM gARetH baBB <hick.icecast at gink.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2024, Wayne Barron wrote:
>
> > Looking through HLS, I found this.
> > https://github.com/mbugeia/srt2hls
>
> Or you could just use ffmpeg:
>
> ffmpeg -hide_banner -i "${icecaststream}" -c:a copy -vn -strftime 1
> -f hls -hls_time 6 -hls_list_size 10 -hls_segment_filename "${hlspath}radio-%Y%m%d-%s.ts"
> -hls_flags delete_segments -segment_format mpegts "${hlspath}radio.m3u8"
>
> then you just have a set of files for a normal webserver.
>
> Note the c:a copy means there is no transcoding in this instance.
>
> If theory the HLS spec only allows for mp3 or aac, but I've abused it by
> even using opus and not had a problem with the limited number of clients
> I've tried.
>
> ffmpeg also does DASH.
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