Icecast - Jan 2005 - Shoutcast Compatibility

Hi all, I have been Shoutcasting for six years now but am looking at using
an Icecast server because of its active and ongoing development.

I have broadcasters who use Shoutcast-compatible tools so the Shoutcast
compatibility is important to me. I downloaded the latest version of Icecast
and used the supplied configuration file for Shoutcast compatibility as a
template.

I can in fact connect using the Sam Encoder in Shoutcast mode just fine to
the server, however, when anyone attempts to connect to the server using the
Shoutcast DSP plug-in, they eventually get connected to the server but
quickly get dropped with the message "connection to remote server
lost".

The server is on port 9000. I've specified an arbitrary mount point name,
set a listen port at 9000 and another at 9001 which has the ShoutcastCompat
flag on.

Does anyone have any ideas? I would be happy to supply the xml file with
garbage passwords if anyone has the time to take a look.

Thanks in advance.

Jonathan Mosen
mailto:jonathan@mosen.org
ph: +64-3-373-6192
Mobile/SMS +64-21-4Mosen
Weblog: http://www.MosenExplosion.com

On Sat, 2005-01-01 at 23:07, Jonathan Mosen wrote:
> Hi all, I have been Shoutcasting for six years now but am looking at using
> an Icecast server because of its active and ongoing development.
> 
> I have broadcasters who use Shoutcast-compatible tools so the Shoutcast
> compatibility is important to me. I downloaded the latest version of
Icecast
> and used the supplied configuration file for Shoutcast compatibility as a
> template.
> 
> I can in fact connect using the Sam Encoder in Shoutcast mode just fine to
> the server, however, when anyone attempts to connect to the server using
the
> Shoutcast DSP plug-in, they eventually get connected to the server but
> quickly get dropped with the message "connection to remote server
lost".
Check what messages you see in the error.log (with log level 4) when the
shoutcast DSP client connects and then fails.  With the sam client
working while connecting in the same way, that would indicate something
like auth failing.

karl.

At 05:07 PM 1/1/2005, you wrote:
>The server is on port 9000. I've specified an arbitrary mount point
name,
>set a listen port at 9000 and another at 9001 which has the ShoutcastCompat
>flag on.
make sure they are using 9000 as their port (not 9001) in the shoutcast DSP 
(yes, this is a bit confusing, but the shoutcast DSP actually connects on 
9001 when you specify 9000 as the port in the DSP - dontcha just love that 
?).  Also, do you have any other sources connected ? The default config 
only allows 2 sources, so if you are connecting more, you would want to 
bump that up...

oddsock

Hi, yes the broadcasters are indeed connecting to 9000. I don't have any
other sources connecting. Most mysterious.

Jonathan Mosen
mailto:jonathan@mosen.org
ph: +64-3-373-6192
Mobile/SMS +64-21-4Mosen
Weblog: http://www.MosenExplosion.com

-----Original Message-----
From: oddsock [mailto:oddsock@oddsock.org] 
Sent: Sunday, 2 January 2005 4:35 p.m.
To: icecast@xiph.org
Subject: Re: [Icecast] Shoutcast Compatibility


At 05:07 PM 1/1/2005, you wrote:
>The server is on port 9000. I've specified an arbitrary mount point 
>name, set a listen port at 9000 and another at 9001 which has the 
>ShoutcastCompat flag on.
make sure they are using 9000 as their port (not 9001) in the shoutcast DSP 
(yes, this is a bit confusing, but the shoutcast DSP actually connects on 
9001 when you specify 9000 as the port in the DSP - dontcha just love that 
?).  Also, do you have any other sources connected ? The default config 
only allows 2 sources, so if you are connecting more, you would want to 
bump that up...

oddsock 


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Jonathan Mosen wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas? I would be happy to supply the xml file with
> garbage passwords if anyone has the time to take a look.
Sure, I'll take a look.  As Karl suggested, the error log with logging set 
to 4 will probably be the most useful thing you can supply, but I'm happy 
to look at your config as well.

I've not actually tried this feature, but I've been meaning to so this 
might provide the needed excuse.

Geoff.



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