Hi All - First post, and something of an audio newbie, so please be gentle. I'm cross-posting this to both icecast and vorbis, albeit in separate emails. I'll try to give as much detail as possible so this might get a bit wordy. I've been trying to get a live stream running for a local college radio station. It's currently up on a Slackware system - but not at all the way I want. (http://www.wcsb.org) I'm building them a brand new server. If required, the old server can be tasked for other functions to support streaming. What I'm trying to get to: - the ability to stream in multiple "qualities" (i.e. low and high bandwidth) - preferably in multiple file formats (ogg and mp3) - the ability to capture portions of the stream from either client or server side Currently - shoutcast is working to keep the stream on the air. The hardware: P-III 800, 512MB RAM, ample disk drive space. As an FYI the system has on-board audio via Intel 815 chipset - the motherboard is, in fact, Genuine Intel (http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/D815EEA/). Telos Audio Active encoder http://www.audioactive.com/products/realtime_enc/rte_ovw.html <p>OS is (fully patched) Red Hat 8.0 <p>Background: I have 2 Telos units - an "older" model that only connects to the server via high-speed serial, and a newer version that's made for streaming via a network connection. Actually, I have two of the newer units at my disposal. Telos does not support Linux. At all. If there's additional software I need to run to "split" this stream to provide multiple data rates that's fine, I just need to know what that might be. The older Telos box worked fine - there was an experimental streamer (binary) from Telos that worked, but it only has the ability to pull from a serial device - it has no concept of the network streaming. I cannot use this older Telos box because the server and the streamer are no longer physically close to one another - to facilitate greater Internet bandwidth the stream server was moved into a wiring closet elsewhere. The stream(s) /has/ to come via the network connected Telos system(s). Initially, I tried to use icecast (icecast-1.3.12). The set-up was no problem, but it could not authenticate to the Telos system when trying to add it as a relay - here's what I saw: [110:Connection Handler] Kicking source 107 [192.168.200.200] [Error in request, relay refused entrance] [relay], connected for 0 seconds, 0 bytes transferred. -1 sources connected [29/Oct/2002:23:27:50] [110:Connection Handler] Kicking all 0 clients for source 107 [29/Oct/2002:23:27:50] [110:Connection Handler] On demand relay for [www.wcsb.org:8000/wcsb] -> [192.168.200.200:1024/] failed, damn! I also looked at options with the soundcard and LAME and half a dozen other open source projects - all of which proved to either not give me what I need, or were far to complicated for my pea brain to get into service correctly. ....at which point someone from Telos told me that Shoutcast was working and to go that route. Which I reluctantly did. It was as simple as adding this to the conf file: RelayPort=8100 RelayServer=192.168.200.200 ...and of course have the Telos system set to "send" to port 8100 So - I hope that's enough information to get a little help. I really don't care what I use on the front end as long as it can talk to a socket for the source stream. I am hoping that you folks will be able / willing to guide me through this, in lurking for the last few days it seems like there's some great minds at work here. I'd be more than happy to cull the archives if someone can just give me some threads or search terms to look over (aside from "clueless newbie") - there's a lot of info here to start paging through blindly. Further - if any of you are in the "college radio biz" (or similar) and have done some cool things to add functionality for the staff I'd love to hear it. I'm not a student, I'm an alumnus just giving my time (and the server) as a donation. Thanx Don PS - treat yourself to the goodness of "http://www.assholierthanthou.com/" --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.