[icecast-dev] time out issues with icecast2

John covici
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:57:34 -0000

But the source computer runs the other os, so I don't have too much
choice as to what I can do and the timeout problems remain with mp3
as well.  The persons involved don't want to use .ogg for now so that
is also not an option.  Is this an icecast bug, or some other problem?

on Thursday 08/14/2003 Arc(arc@indymedia.org) wrote
 > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:01:11PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
 > > Hi.  I am having a strange problem where the source times out during
 > > anicecast2 stream -- I was using mp3pro at 32khz and even some other
 > > speeds.  I have set the source timeout for 1 minute, but it still
 > > times out or says connection reset by peer.
 >
 > Icecast2 isn't designed to use mp3pro, its a different format
 > alltogether which only uses the "mp3" name to piggyback on the
concept
 > that "mp3 = online music".  I don't think it'll work
with Icecast2.
 >
 > > Now the strange thing is that I also had a windows media stream on
 > > the same source machine going to a wm server and it had no problems!
 > > So can someone tell me am I missing something, is wm more reliable?
 >
 > If you need MP3, try using ices0, or better yet use ices2 and stream Ogg
 > Vorbis.  Better quality than MP3 (by far), and if you feel the need you
 > can supply your users with easy access to a Java (JOrbis) client for
 > listening without an Ogg-enabled player (which most are nowadays).