On Thursday 28 February 2002 06:20 pm, you wrote:> Hello. > > We have been using LiveIce to serve mp3 streams for 10 months or so. So > far, IceCast has been pretty reliable. Well, until LiveIce is introduced > into the picture. We originally tried LiveIce running on FreeBSD. It ran > for a while, but we suffered wierd problems: disconnects, skips and > such. We are streaming from a radio receiver -- at 28800 compatible > bitrates. > > So we switched to the WinAmp plugin from the Shoutcast site. We easily > manage 2 month uptimes without problems. However... It is a Windows > program, and Unix is our friend. > > So recently I've decided to expand. That is, add some other audio > streams. I scrapped together 3 systems to act as encoding hosts. Loaded > FreeeBSD 4.5 + current Lame + LiveIce + Screen on them all. Perfect I > think! Small footprint, I can line them up with a network switch in the > corner of my bedroom and serve content. > > But now it is making IceCast unstable. I first hit problems when > decreasing the bitrate to 16000 and the sample rate to 11025. I tried to > move things back up, but it seems to be completley unstable and a mess. > > Does anyone have suggestions? By leaving LAME and trying to go with L3ENC > or whatever the current version is -- will that improve stability? Anyone > have any tips? I really don't want to go the Windows route -- but I don't > want to babysit the stuff either. LiveIce seems like an okay application > -- except stability. Is there anything else to feed live audio outside of > LiveIce?I've been streaming live audio and not had much luck with LiveIce staying alive either... I had a silly cron script running to check if it was alive and bring it back up again! I switched to Darkice about 2 months ago and the stream has been rock solid. This on a linux box running 2.4.14 kernel. Darkice uses liblame without spawning lame externally and, in my opinion, is much more straight forward in it's configuration. Check it out: http://darkice.sourceforge.net BTW, ignore the warning about it being beta. While that may be true, it seems very stable and, for what I want, bug-free. Chris --- >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 at xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Hello. We have been using LiveIce to serve mp3 streams for 10 months or so. So far, IceCast has been pretty reliable. Well, until LiveIce is introduced into the picture. We originally tried LiveIce running on FreeBSD. It ran for a while, but we suffered wierd problems: disconnects, skips and such. We are streaming from a radio receiver -- at 28800 compatible bitrates. So we switched to the WinAmp plugin from the Shoutcast site. We easily manage 2 month uptimes without problems. However... It is a Windows program, and Unix is our friend. So recently I've decided to expand. That is, add some other audio streams. I scrapped together 3 systems to act as encoding hosts. Loaded FreeeBSD 4.5 + current Lame + LiveIce + Screen on them all. Perfect I think! Small footprint, I can line them up with a network switch in the corner of my bedroom and serve content. But now it is making IceCast unstable. I first hit problems when decreasing the bitrate to 16000 and the sample rate to 11025. I tried to move things back up, but it seems to be completley unstable and a mess. Does anyone have suggestions? By leaving LAME and trying to go with L3ENC or whatever the current version is -- will that improve stability? Anyone have any tips? I really don't want to go the Windows route -- but I don't want to babysit the stuff either. LiveIce seems like an okay application -- except stability. Is there anything else to feed live audio outside of LiveIce? We have tried LiveIce on Linux, on FreeBSD, on FreeBSD with Linux emualtion. Then we were getting soundcard problems. Recently I tried LiveIce on the following: FreeBSD 4.5, 64MB x 3 One system has OPL3Sax One system has ADsomething generic card One system has Ensoniq The AD something is kind of nasty, if you bail out of liveice twice -- it will no longer talk to the sound card until a reboot. Once again, feeding audio from radio receivers is the project. Not playing MP3 playlists. And we operate at really low bitrates (It is local EMS and stuff, so high quality isn't needed). <p> -- Ethan <p><p>--- >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.
Chris Riddell scriveva:> I've been streaming live audio and not had much luck with LiveIce staying > alive either... I had a silly cron script running to check if it was alive > and bring it back up again! > > I switched to Darkice about 2 months ago and the stream has been rock solid. > This on a linux box running 2.4.14 kernel. Darkice uses liblame without > spawning lame externally and, in my opinion, is much more straight forward in > it's configuration. Check it out: http://darkice.sourceforge.netIt's the same for me: 2 months with liveice + cron and now DarkICE ... alive and kicking from fLORENCE/italy :) -- GHERdO, happy GNU/linux user. ... Boys don't Cry! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: part Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 233 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20020301/beca27bd/part.pgp