Icecast - Aug 2004 - yp.icecast.org || when does your stream come into the db?

Jack Moffitt wrote:
> 
> > How do you define the mount points? Are they a directory within
> > /usr/share/icecast that contain an index.pls file for example?
> >
> > Forgive me but the documentation appears quite sparse here.
> 
> A mountpiont is a fragment of a URL (often referred to as a URI) like
> '/stream1' or '/my_cool_stuff/stream.ogg'
> 
> You tell shout, ices, or whatever what mountpoint to use.  It's
> arbitrary what you call it.
> 
> Then the client requests that mountpoint, thus getting the stream.
> 
> It's like making a file called index.html which you stick in the
webroot
> diretory.  It's then accesible as /index.html.  Except hat in icecast,
> you use shout or ices to "make something accessible" and the
mountpoint
> just becomes an artitrary moniker.
That much I figured out. I'm trying to use winamp to set up a remote
broadcast. Where do I tell (either icecast or winamp) what the mount
point is. When I use the shoutcast source it appears to create a mount
moint cammed ice_0. I have no idea where that comes from.

I see the /etc/mounts.aut file and the groups.aut and users.aut. I just
don't see where I make a connection between streem comming in and
"mount
point" goint out. 

Thanks in advance

SG

PS - I hope someone is keeping track of this ... it'll make a good FAQ.

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> That much I figured out. I'm trying to use winamp to set up a remote
> broadcast. Where do I tell (either icecast or winamp) what the mount
> point is. When I use the shoutcast source it appears to create a mount
> moint cammed ice_0. I have no idea where that comes from.
If you use Nullsoft's tools, you cannot specify mount points.  That's
because the Nullsoft team never added multiple streams per server.  If
you run shoutcast, you have to create extra servers.

If you send an icy (shoutcast-style) stream to icecast, it assign you a
mountpoint like /icy_0.  if you connect another (from a different ip
address), it will assign you /icy_1, etc.

You cannot connect to icy style stream to an icecast server from the
same mountpoint, because of the source reconnection features of icecast
(how is it supposed to know if you're a down mount returning, or a new
mount?)
> I see the /etc/mounts.aut file and the groups.aut and users.aut. I just
> don't see where I make a connection between streem comming in and
"mount
> point" goint out. 
You do this only in the clients.  the .aut stuff is for controlling
access.  Ie, you can put a password on certain mountpoints.  But you
cannot change the mountpoints there.

You can change a mountpoint after a stream has connected by using the
'modify' command at the console.

jack.

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Hi:

IIRC, the oddcast DSP plugin (http://www.oddsock.org) will allow
mountpoints (or at least oddsock said it would soon).  Samcast apparently
already does, but I forget the URL for this (it's in the list archive
somewhere).  These are winamp DSP plugins.

Geoff.

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> How do you define the mount points? Are they a directory within
> /usr/share/icecast that contain an index.pls file for example?
> 
> Forgive me but the documentation appears quite sparse here.
A mountpiont is a fragment of a URL (often referred to as a URI) like
'/stream1' or '/my_cool_stuff/stream.ogg'

You tell shout, ices, or whatever what mountpoint to use.  It's
arbitrary what you call it.

Then the client requests that mountpoint, thus getting the stream.

It's like making a file called index.html which you stick in the webroot
diretory.  It's then accesible as /index.html.  Except hat in icecast,
you use shout or ices to "make something accessible" and the
mountpoint
just becomes an artitrary moniker.

it's necessary to distinguish different streams this way, as just
connecting to:

http://server.com:8000

gives you no indication of which of the possibly multiple streams you
really want?  You need the extra information.

jack.

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