<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000">Hello all reading this. I am new to the list as a way to learn a few things about IceCast and I am fuzzy on. I am not a total noob to media, or serving it. I have even developed, setup configured, a media server, or two, and many many dedicated, or otherwise hosting servers, and by either blind luck and chance found them to actually work once I was done. I am Scott, am in the process of building a linux IceCast server. I hope you don't mind my walk down memory lane but It pertains to the quandary.</font></span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000">Back in the day ( late1997 ish) I was developing, some of the first early proof of concepts of streaming media servers, and streaming websites. We had 3 parts to the early versions of these media systems. We were also already developing, ideas for a streaming solutions our supplier of hardware and software was ViewCast's early <span style="line-height:16px">Osprey</span>, who's hardware consisted in large, and supplied through companies acquired by PolyCom. PolyCom's Hardware/Software solutions through acquisitions of many players at the time, were alot of the same stuff, their motivation of course, to produce early Teleconference products, and snap up major stakes in Streaming Media. </font></span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000">One box was an encoding server that was used to encode the video/audio into digital format. The second was a server with a T1 internet connection and dedicated IP, the encoded video/audio files were stored. The third was a IIS webserver same T1 internet connection but different IP. We were working on early ideas, and developing caching servers too.</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000">I would via 1 single live (60 min. 548 kbps @24 fps) instance in a basic player of shock wave flash code embedded in a webpage, broadcasting without issue that single data rate, and don't recall ever requiring a calculation involving per viewer being needed to calculate bandwidth requirements, as it is a single instance of one data rate correct? As I recall the only variable required was the effective data rate of the broadcast stream. So as shown above you need at least a 548 kbps connection at both ends of the Broadcast to watch it with no issues, by 1000's at the same time, and don't see how a per person suddenly came into the picture in broadcasting media. Only if you had say, 30 live (60 min. 548 kbps @24 fps) instances of that same video/audio sources broadcasting in embedded players at the same exact time in different webpages to 30 separate viewers on the same T1, would you need to use a calculation, to determine tha</font></span>t at least 1048576kbps ban<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000">dwidth would be required. Maybe I forgot something, or these people providing IceCast broadcasting host connections, are charging people right, and making very little profits, or they are raping people using their services to broadcast their stream?? IDK?</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><font color="#000000">I said all that to ask this. One of my reasons for considering my own IceCast server to stream, is the outlandish pricing of the IceCast hosts. Can someone tell me my calculations that I have to use I mean by my calculations, one broadcast stream at 128kbps would require 128kbps of my current internet connection, not dependent upon how many listeners I have.</font></span></div>
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