I seem to be having problems with people accessing an icecast stream
from one of my computers. I am using the current cvs of icecast2
(icecast module), libshout2 (libshout module), and ices2 (ices module)
and the RC2 version of the ogg and vorbis libraries. I connect to the
internet via DSL and have the DSL modem attached to a Linksys router.
The router is configured to forward all port 8000 requests to the
computer running icecast. The access log shows that a lot of
connections have been made, but I am not aware of anyone who has been
able to successfully listen to the stream (except for the computers on
the same side of the router, which can access and play the stream
without any problems). I have attached a copy of the icecast config
file that I am using.
Here is the link to the stream in question.
http://66.149.8.8:8000/example1.ogg
Jim Shepherd
contents of icecast.xml:
<icecast>
<location>Shepherd House</location>
<admin>jimshep@mindspring.com</admin>
<limits>
<clients>100</clients>
<sources>2</sources>
<threadpool>5</threadpool>
<client-timeout>15</client-timeout>
</limits>
<source-password>hackme</source-password>
<directory>
<touch-freq>5</touch-freq>
<server>
<host>yp.icecast.org</host>
<touch-freq>15</touch-freq>
</server>
</directory>
<hostname>shep</hostname>
<port>8000</port>
<!--<bind-address>127.0.0.1</bind-address>-->
<paths>
<basedir>/usr/local/icecast</basedir>
<logdir>/tmp</logdir>
</paths>
<logging>
<accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
<errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
</logging>
</icecast>
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> http://66.149.8.8:8000/example1.oggI can connect, although listening to the stream is impossible. You're streaming at ~130kbps and I *should* be able to listen to that stream well, but it appears that you're upstream is totally overloaded. With your current <clients>100</clients> setting you'd need a 15MBit upstream to serve all those listeners at that quality. Reduce it to something near (Upstream-~10%)/Bitrate if you plan to spend all your upstream on icecast. I found 32kbps/mono/44.1kHz to be a great low-bandwidth stream with pretty good quality, btw. Unfortunately, it usually hovers around 42-48kbps which means that I can't serve more than 2 listeners reliably with my 128kbps upstream. ;P Moritz -- _______________________________________________________________________ "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" - Benjamin Franklin --- >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.
Thanks (slapping forehead with hand). I completely forgot that my upstream is limited to 128kbs. That would definitely cause a problem as you have mentioned. For the time being, I re-encoded the files at 56kbs to see if that helps. If so, I'll look into using a even lower bandwidth streams. Let me know if you are successful using this lower bandwidth stream. -Jim On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 18:20, Moritz Grimm wrote:> > http://66.149.8.8:8000/example1.ogg > > I can connect, although listening to the stream is impossible. You're > streaming at ~130kbps and I *should* be able to listen to that stream > well, but it appears that you're upstream is totally overloaded. With > your current <clients>100</clients> setting you'd need a 15MBit upstream > to serve all those listeners at that quality. Reduce it to something > near (Upstream-~10%)/Bitrate if you plan to spend all your upstream on > icecast. > > I found 32kbps/mono/44.1kHz to be a great low-bandwidth stream with > pretty good quality, btw. Unfortunately, it usually hovers around > 42-48kbps which means that I can't serve more than 2 listeners reliably > with my 128kbps upstream. ;P > > > Moritz > > -- > _______________________________________________________________________ > "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, > deserve neither liberty or security" - Benjamin Franklin > > --- >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.--- >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.