Icecast - Aug 2004 - icecast "dump" suggestions (archiving)?

Hello.

Anyone have any suggestions for automating archiving? I have a stream that
will connect to the server every morning at 5am and be kill'ed at
10am. I'd like to record this every day... is there any suggested
solution? I'd have to setup a script to telnet in and start a dump
command, and I don't know if that would easily be possible without parsing
out the stream ID (Which is random on every connect).

I am using darkice as the feed (FreeBSD host with 3 PCI sound cards,
thanks to the people on this list -- working great).

Any suggestions to setup a means to record the stream to disk? Is there
something that I can stand up like the icecast server, set it up as a 2nd
connection and send the data to disk?

                                -- Ethan

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Ethan wrote:
> Anyone have any suggestions for automating archiving? I have a stream that
> will connect to the server every morning at 5am and be kill'ed at
> 10am. I'd like to record this every day... is there any suggested
> solution? I'd have to setup a script to telnet in and start a dump
> command, and I don't know if that would easily be possible without
parsing
> out the stream ID (Which is random on every connect).
are you using icecast 1.x or icecast 2? icecast 1.x supports a remote 
dump feature: the stream will be dumped to a file on the server side. 
Unfortunately icecast 2 does not support such a thing.
> I am using darkice as the feed (FreeBSD host with 3 PCI sound cards,
> thanks to the people on this list -- working great).
darkice supports the local dump feature by now (since version 0.8). so 
you can save your stream into a file on the encoder side.

Then you can set a cron job at 10:05 to copy the saved dump file to your 
archive.

<p>Akos

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> are you using icecast 1.x or icecast 2? icecast 1.x supports a remote 
> dump feature: the stream will be dumped to a file on the server side. 
> Unfortunately icecast 2 does not support such a thing.
We are still using 1.x.. I see the support for the dump function, but no
easy way to automate the use of it.
> darkice supports the local dump feature by now (since version 0.8). so 
> you can save your stream into a file on the encoder side.
Ahhh! I'm running .8 so that would be EXCELLENT! I shall go read the
documentation for darkice. I didn't realize it could do that.
> Then you can set a cron job at 10:05 to copy the saved dump file to your 
> archive.
> Akos
Yuppers! Thanks!

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