Dave St John wrote:T> Thats a damn good idea, client connects, player sends request, server > responds to dsp encoder says hey i need a stream, dsp says ACK ill send yaa> stream.Sorry, I mis-read your idea Dave. It is a good one. To further your idea, icecast2 could send the number of listeners back to the client everytime a connection is opened or dropped. This would allow the number of listeners to be displayed at the client which would be very useful. And it could also control whether audio data is sent or not. It would be a good thing to add to the spec I think. Regards, Ross. --- >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.
Thats a damn good idea, client connects, player sends request, server responds to dsp encoder says hey i need a stream, dsp says ACK ill send ya a stream. <p><p><p>Dave St John Mediacast1 Administration (720) 641-7586 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Levis" <ross@stationplaylist.com> To: <icecast@xiph.org> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:53 PM Subject: [icecast] Oddcast suggestion <p>> Hi oddsock> > What would be really useful is if your winamp plugin could monitor the > number of listeners on the IceCast2 server and only send the audio when > listeners > 0. Perhaps the metadata could continue to be sent. Thiswould> reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are severalhundred,> perhaps thousands of streams as planned by http://www.rville.com. > > It would also be very useful to me as I have a 5gig limit per month on my > DSL which only allows me to broadcast for 14 days continuously at 32kb/s.I> could extend this considerably. > > What do you think? Any possibility for the future? > > Regards, > Ross Levis. > http://xstream1.com:8616/soulfm.ogg > > --- >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. ><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.
Hi Dave> Thats a damn good idea, client connects, player sends request, server > responds to dsp encoder says hey i need a stream, dsp says ACK ill send yaa> stream.I don't think the listeners player should send anything as that would require other Ogg players to follow suit. I was thinking of simply the OddCast plugin checking the IceCast2 server every 5 or 10 seconds to see if any player is connected. Maybe it could just check the yp dir. If there are no listeners then don't send audio. That would work, wouldn't it? Ross. --- >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.
This kind of behavior (on demand live streaming) is not supported by either oddcast or icecast2, and honestly, really shouldn't be...In your situation, I'd consider doing something closer to what live365 did back in the day to address this particular issue, which is store all their content locally on their servers, and basically build playlists that are customed for each user. I wouldn't count on oddcast to support the "connect and send audio when and only when a listener connects" type of logic, or icecast2 for that matter either, in the near or even far future.... oddsock At 01:38 PM 6/21/2003 +1200, you wrote:>Hi Dave > > > Thats a damn good idea, client connects, player sends request, server > > responds to dsp encoder says hey i need a stream, dsp says ACK ill send ya >a > > stream. > >I don't think the listeners player should send anything as that would >require other Ogg players to follow suit. > >I was thinking of simply the OddCast plugin checking the IceCast2 server >every 5 or 10 seconds to see if any player is connected. Maybe it could >just check the yp dir. If there are no listeners then don't send audio. >That would work, wouldn't it? > >Ross. > >--- >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.<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.