I've been in commercial broadcast (AM/FM stations) for years but never had to worry about things like bandwidth or maximum number of user connections. I'm trying to specify an online broadcast facility for 200 listeners. Some of these listeners will be in Europe and Australia. Icecast appears to be a solution. Can icecast do something which I think is called "multicasting", i.e. can I use an icecast server to send audio streams to remote servers which the listeners would connect to? And if this can be done, what software does the "multicasting"? - Peter --- >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.
At 04:30 PM 12/25/2001 -0800, you wrote:>Can icecast do something which I think is called "multicasting", i.e. >can I use an icecast server to send audio streams to remote servers >which the listeners would connect to? > >And if this can be done, what software does the "multicasting"?"multicasting" is actually part of the of the tcp/ip suite. Normally the header for a packet specificies a single single destination and as I understand it a multicast packet specifies multiple destinations. Unfortunately though the range of addresses that will accept multicast is small. A rather large list of links to documents about Multicast. http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/DS-Archive/MTP.html There are quite a few documents out the concerning the multicast protocols. Some research might be in order: http://www.google.com/search?q=multicast&btnG=Google+Search A better solution would be to setup multiple servers at key locations (perhaps something colocated in the UK and Australia). Have a central server that feeds streams to these two servers. -Mark --- >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.
Mark Woodson wrote:> > A better solution would be to setup multiple > servers at key locations (perhaps something > colocated in the UK and Australia). Have a central > server that feeds streams to these two servers.Mark, thanks for the info. Do you mean that icecast can accept a stream from another icecast server and then distribute that stream to its "listeners"? If that's the case, is there anything special I have to do? - Peter --- >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.