Icecast - Nov 2004 - source clients

Hello again,

does anybody know icecast sorce client which encodes live audio in mp3 and uses
ALSA drivers. I've tried darkice, but it uses too many resources for several
encoding processes. Maybe the reason is because I'm using virtual ALSA
devices created for each program I want to encode. But I know only two ways
different channels from the same soundcard to be used simmultaneously by
different encoding processes. These ways are: 1) Create virtual ALSA devices for
each channel pair 2) Use JACK compatible encoders like ices-kh. If there is
another way, I would like to know it. Maybe you know icecast source client
running in Windows? Thank you in advance.
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Mindaugas Musnikas wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> does anybody know icecast sorce client which encodes live audio in
> mp3 and uses ALSA drivers. I've tried darkice, but it uses too many
> resources for several encoding processes. Maybe the reason is because
> I'm using virtual ALSA devices created for each program I want to
> encode. But I know only two ways different channels from the same
> soundcard to be used simmultaneously by different encoding processes.
> These ways are: 1) Create virtual ALSA devices for each channel pair
> 2) Use JACK compatible encoders like ices-kh. If there is another
> way, I would like to know it. Maybe you know icecast source client
> running in Windows? Thank you in advance.
When confronted with that problem myself, (4 audio sources to encode on 
one machine) I used the ALSA virtual device setup and four icesS 2.0 
processes feeding into a local icecast server, I then used 
streamTranscoder to convert them into mp3 and send them out the correct 
servers.  A little messy, and required several control scripts, but it 
works :-)

Stephen
LiveIce Project http://liveice.sourceforge.net/