First of all, Thank you for a great program... I am trying to setup a sort of Radio Station for our College and your program is ideal. So yeah thanks. However i have a question: I understand that to stream over the internet you need a streaming server. Correct? BUT for me, streaming over our LAN, will that be necerssary? Ideally I would like to use the computer that is running Icecast to stream the audio to the other computers. Other than that (the fact that noone else but me [im listening right now at localhost :P] can hear the station its working brilliantly. Thanks for all the work you have put into the program and thanks in advance for any help you can give me with my question. Peter -- Save Manchester United www.shareholdersunited.org
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:40:18PM +1300, Peter McCaffrey wrote:> I understand that to stream over the internet you need a streaming > server. Correct? > BUT for me, streaming over our LAN, will that be necerssary? Ideally I > would like to use the computer that is running Icecast to stream the > audio to the other computers.If I understand your question correctly, then no, you do not need a streaming server. That is to say, Icecast *is* a streaming server, and of course you have to have a server running somewhere to send audio between machines. What you may be thinking of as a streaming server is a separate copy of icecast running somewhere with a high-bandwidth connection, usually in a remote data center. That's useful if you need to serve a lot of listeners at once, but in theory it doesn't matter if people connect to the local icecast on your machine over the lan, or some remote icecast on a bigger machine carrying the same stream, as long as there's enough bandwidth to go around. If that's not what you were asking, I guess you'll have to try again. :-) Cheers, -r
Ralph Giles wrote:> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:40:18PM +1300, Peter McCaffrey wrote: >> If I understand your question correctly, then no, you do not need a > streaming server. >A good option is VideoLAN client a free software music & video player & streamer, with a huge range of supported formats, including itunes protected m4p's. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/