Icecast dev - Jan 2013 - Questions about builds

I have a couple of questions about the various Icecast builds that exist:

1) It seems like new builds being done today are all "kh" builds. Is
that observation correct? If I see something non-kh, is it older by definition?

2) Other than possibly age, what is the conceptual different (if any) between kh
and non-kh builds? What do kh builds hope to accomplish that old Icecast never
did?

3) There was a kh-ads build at some point. Did that later become the Ando
Targeted Ad Injector? Did the ads build continue to be developed?

Thanks for humoring my many questions. :)


Wes Keene

Hi,

On 22/01/13 02:13, Wes Keene wrote:
> I have a couple of questions about the various Icecast builds that exist:
>
> 1) It seems like new builds being done today are all "kh" builds.
Is that observation correct? If I see something non-kh, is it older by
definition?
No, Icecast is under active development and currently the stable version 
is 2.3.3 and there is a beta version of 2.4 (among other things webm and 
opus support). KH is a whole different story and you can't simply compare.

> 2) Other than possibly age, what is the conceptual different (if any)
between kh and non-kh builds? What do kh builds hope to accomplish that old
Icecast never did?
KH has a significantly different code-base than main-line Icecast. It 
also has some very interesting features, but sadly no contributions from 
there to main-line.
 From my personal opinion point of view it's a choice between a lot of 
features, less stability and very stable and less but solid features.

> 3) There was a kh-ads build at some point. Did that later become the Ando
Targeted Ad Injector? Did the ads build continue to be developed?
No idea, you'd need to ask Karl that question. KH is his thing and he 
should know.


Cheers

Thomas


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