I have just downloaded from anoncvs@xiph.org the ogg, vorbis, icecast,
and ices modules. I compiled and installed all four modules without any
errors. I seem to have icecast working correctly (no errors in the
logs), but I cannot get ices started. I receive the following errors in
the log file:
[2001-11-09 07:04:54] EROR playlist-builtin/playlist_open_module No
playlist type given, cannot initialise playlist module
[2001-11-09 07:04:54] EROR input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input
module "playlist"
I use the following command:
ices -c /usr/local/etc/ices-playlist.xml
and the contents of /usr/local/etc/ices-playlist.xml are appended to the
end of this post.
It seems that the playlist type is correct and the playlist file itself
is a plain text file with one filename per line. Any suggestions on
what is configured incorrectly would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Jim
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ices>
<background>0</background> <!-- run in background?
(unimplemented) -->
<logpath>/tmp</logpath> <!-- where logs, etc go. -->
<logfile>ices.log</logfile>
<loglevel>4</loglevel> <!-- 1=error,2=warn,3=info,4=debug
-->
<stream>
<!-- metadata used for stream listing (not currently used)
-->
<metadata>
<name>Jim Tunes</name>
<genre>Rock</genre>
<description>My personal
collection</description>
</metadata>
<!-- input module
This defines where the data (raw PCM, vorbis files,
etc.) comes
from. The module used here is the playlist module - it
has
'submodules' for different types of playlist.
The only one
currently implemented is 'basic', which is a
simple file-based
playlist
-->
<input>
<module>playlist</module>
<param name="type">basic</param>
<!-- Only 'basic' implemented -->
<param
name="file">/usr/share/ogg/all.txt</param> <!-- be sure
this
exists -->
<param name="random">0</param>
<!-- random play -->
<param name="once">0</param>
<!-- if set to 1 , plays once through,
then exits. -->
</input>
<!-- Stream instance
You may have one or more instances here. This allows
you to
send the same input data to one or more servers (or to
different
mountpoints on the same server). Each of them can have
different
parameters. This is primarily useful for a) relaying to
multiple
independent servers, and b) encoding/reencoding to
multiple
bitrates.
If one instance fails (for example, the associated
server goes
down, etc), the others will continue to function
correctly.
This example defines two instances as two mountpoints
on the
same server.
-->
<instance>
<!-- Server details:
You define hostname and port for the server
here, along with
the source password and mountpoint.
-->
<hostname>localhost</hostname>
<port>8000</port>
<password>hackme</password>
<mount>/example1.ogg</mount>
<!-- Reconnect parameters:
When something goes wrong (e.g. the server
crashes, or the
network drops) and ices disconnects from the
server, these
control how often it tries to reconnect, and
how many times
it tries to reconnect. Delay is in seconds.
If you set reconnectattempts to -1, it will
continue
indefinately. Suggest setting reconnectdelay to
a large value
if you do this.
-->
<reconnectdelay>2</reconnectdelay>
<reconnectattempts>5</reconnectattempts>
<!-- maxqueuelength:
This describes how long the internal data
queues may be. This
basically lets you control how much data gets
buffered before
ices decides it can't send to the server
fast enough, and
either shuts down or flushes the queue
(dropping the data)
and continues.
For advanced users only.
-->
<maxqueuelength>80</maxqueuelength>
<!-- Live encoding/reencoding:
Currrently, the parameters given here for
encoding MUST
match the input data for channels and sample
rate. That
restriction will be relaxed in the future.
-->
<encode>
<bitrate>128000</bitrate> <!--
bps. e.g. 64000 for 64 kbps -->
<samplerate>44100</samplerate>
<channels>2</channels>
</encode>
</instance>
</stream>
</ices>
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At 02:28 AM 11/9/01 -0500, you wrote:>I have just downloaded from anoncvs@xiph.org the ogg, vorbis, icecast, >and ices modules. I compiled and installed all four modules without any >errors. I seem to have icecast working correctly (no errors in the >logs), but I cannot get ices started. I receive the following errors in >the log file: > >[2001-11-09 07:04:54] EROR playlist-builtin/playlist_open_module No >playlist type given, cannot initialise playlist module >[2001-11-09 07:04:54] EROR input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input >module "playlist" > >I use the following command: > >ices -c /usr/local/etc/ices-playlist.xml >Erm. I think I'll just give myself an F for error messages. The correct error message here is "Incorrect usage. Usage is: ices configfile.xml". The actual error message you're getting is because it fails to open the config file, then gets further, and finally gives up because there isn't a default value for the playlist type. Anyway, no -c, just "ices /usr/local/etc/ices-playlist.xml" I'll clean up the error messages here. You'll also need (you may have it, but you didn't say...) the libshout module out of cvs. If it linked anyway, you probably had an old libshout (for mp3 streaming) around, it won't actually run. Michael --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
>It seems that the playlist type is correct and the playlist file itself >is a plain text file with one filename per line. Any suggestions on >what is configured incorrectly would be appreciated. >Jim, As it turns out, this was a real bug - the code that read in the config file was checking return values incorrectly, and so it THOUGHT it had read the file right, but it had actually failed. This is now fixed in cvs. Thanks for the bug report. Michael --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ icecast project homepage: http://www.icecast.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.