oddsock wrote:> ummm...what IS your station ?Soul FM. You can search on "soul" and you will find 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.
On 21 Jun 2003 at 12:53, Ross Levis wrote:> 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. > This would reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are > several hundred, perhaps thousands of streams as planned by > http://www.rville.com.Number of listeners might be a good solution. But there is already an external app, which can monitor multiple servers (relay servers?) and such at the same time, generate stats etc. http://www.casterclub.com/icecast_status.php I tried it some time back and there the version from the download- section didn't work properly with the latest icecast2 because there were some changes in icecast2. But grab the source from CVS and build it from there ... this was patched by Oddsock to support current icecast2-version. Maybe the best solution for icecast2-statistics out there. (PS: And maybe you don't think about inventing your own if this doesn't suit your needs but contribute to the project - since this seems a good tool anyway!)> 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?Doing it "the usual way" seems no good solution in my eyes. Since we normally have buffers (e.g. on the icecast2-server and I bet as well on the client) that need to be filled before the listener can hear anything etc. this might make constructing the Icecast2-plugin quite difficult. One and maybe the best solution (for now?) would be to set up an icecast2-server on your home-machine and tell your server to do relaying. With Icecast2 relay-servers already are only connected when there are listeners for the stream, afaik. Stefan --- >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.
ummm...what IS your station ? oddsock At 12:10 PM 6/21/2003 +1200, you wrote:>I've specified a number of genres for my station separated by commas >(Newage, World, Easy Listening, Folk) and doing a freeform search on any of >these doesn't display my station. Is a fix needed or should I separate >genres with something else? It is listed on http://yp.icecast.net > >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.<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 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. This would reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are several hundred, 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.
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.
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ross Levis wrote:> 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. This would > reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are several hundred, > perhaps thousands of streams as planned by http://www.rville.com.ummm. But you need a stream for people to tune into. I don't think that's going to work. However, you could perhaps use relaying. I've not messed with relaying with icecast 2.x, but icecast 1.x could be set up so that if the server pulled a relay, it would only connect to the originating stream when there was someone tuned in to listen to it. If icecast 2.x does this too, then you could run a local icecast server and get your main server to pull from you. Geoff. --- >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.
On Saturday 21 June 2003 10:53, Ross Levis wrote:> 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. This would > reduce bandwidth requirements substantially when there are several hundred, > 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?As described, this wouldn't even vaguely work - the protocols just don't allow it. However, you could get the same effect using some sort of on-demand relaying. Icecast2 doesn't currently support that - but it's designed so that it should be possible (and not even too difficult) to do so. Mike --- >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.