I don't develop in C unfortunately, but I think I've thought of another way of doing it for those using Winamp. A DSP plugin could be developed to read /admin/streamlist to get number of listeners. If listeners is zero then zero the audio data. Place this in front of the OddCast DSP. I'm not exactly sure what is possible with a DSP plugin. Someone else may know if the audio data can be completely removed or does it need to output digital silence, which should at least be encoded at a lower bitrate. Anyone know? Ross. Michael Smith wrote:> Icecast2 already supports relaying. > It doesn't do on-demand relaying. The design is such that it > should be easy to > add, but I (and as far as I know, the other current > developers) have no > intention of implementing it in the near future. Patches are welcome. > > Mike--- >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.
Hmm, maybe it could work somehow if we're using quality-based VBR-
encoding? If you have silence only very few bandwidth is needed.
But I really personally dislike all these VBR-things ... so thats why
I would never try implementing it :-)
If you want to try to do it this way you might have to write a dsp-
plugin that loads Oddcast DSP "behind" itself and passes audio
through. This way you could mute the audio.
Just my 2 cents
Stefan
On 23 Jun 2003 at 22:37, Bryan Payne wrote:
> Yea,
>
> It's VERY possbile to have the encoder sit idle until a User connects
> - we do that with our WMA encoders and where thinking of applying it
> to mp3 and ogg - however therein lies the problem - instead of PULL
> streaming you are PUSH streaming - and the server MUST see a source
> connected otherwise it will not allow a client to connect -
>
> Bryan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ross Levis" <ross.levis@cchlawbase.co.nz>
> To: <icecast@xiph.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:32 PM
> Subject: RE: [icecast] Oddcast suggestion
>
>
> I don't develop in C unfortunately, but I think I've thought of
> another way of doing it for those using Winamp.
>
> A DSP plugin could be developed to read /admin/streamlist to get
> number of listeners. If listeners is zero then zero the audio data.
> Place this in front of the OddCast DSP. I'm not exactly sure what is
> possible with a DSP plugin. Someone else may know if the audio data
> can be completely removed or does it need to output digital silence,
> which should at least be encoded at a lower bitrate.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Ross.
>
> Michael Smith wrote:
> > Icecast2 already supports relaying.
> > It doesn't do on-demand relaying. The design is such that it
> > should be easy to
> > add, but I (and as far as I know, the other current
> > developers) have no
> > intention of implementing it in the near future. Patches are
> > welcome.
> >
> > Mike
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Yea, It's VERY possbile to have the encoder sit idle until a User connects - we do that with our WMA encoders and where thinking of applying it to mp3 and ogg - however therein lies the problem - instead of PULL streaming you are PUSH streaming - and the server MUST see a source connected otherwise it will not allow a client to connect - Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Levis" <ross.levis@cchlawbase.co.nz> To: <icecast@xiph.org> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:32 PM Subject: RE: [icecast] Oddcast suggestion <p>I don't develop in C unfortunately, but I think I've thought of another way of doing it for those using Winamp. A DSP plugin could be developed to read /admin/streamlist to get number of listeners. If listeners is zero then zero the audio data. Place this in front of the OddCast DSP. I'm not exactly sure what is possible with a DSP plugin. Someone else may know if the audio data can be completely removed or does it need to output digital silence, which should at least be encoded at a lower bitrate. Anyone know? Ross. Michael Smith wrote:> Icecast2 already supports relaying. > It doesn't do on-demand relaying. The design is such that it > should be easy to > add, but I (and as far as I know, the other current > developers) have no > intention of implementing it in the near future. Patches are welcome. > > Mike--- >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. --- >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.