Icecast - Aug 2004 - Difficulties with Ices2

I have been successful in running a playlist through Ices and Icecast...
I have run into difficulty running a live stream through the soundcard,
however...

The following is the log when I attempt to run ices ices-mylive.xml:

INFO ices-core/main ices started...
EROR input-oss/oss_open_module Couldn't set sample format to AFMT_S16_LE
EROR input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input module "oss"
INFO ices-core/main Shutdown complete

Contents of the ices-mylive.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ices>
    <background>0</background> <!-- run in background?
(unimplemented) -->
    <logpath>/usr/local/icecast</logpath> <!-- where logs, etc
go. -->
    <logfile>/usr/local/icecast/logs/ices.log</logfile>
    <loglevel>4</loglevel> <!-- 1=error,2=warn,3=info,4=debug
-->
    <consolelog>1</consolelog>
        <!-- set this to 1 to log to console of file above -->
    <stream>
        <!-- metadata used for stream listing (not currently used) -->
        <metadata>
            <name>Radio Free Linux</name>
            <genre>Talk Radio</genre>
            <description>Radio Free Linux - Your Source for Open
Source</description>
        </metadata>
        <input>
            <module>oss</module>
            <param name="rate">11000</param> <!--
samplerate 22050 best-->
            <param name="channels">1</param> <!--
number of channels -->
            <param name="device">/dev/dsp</param> <!--
audio device -->
            <param name="metadata">0</param>
            <param name="metadatafilename">test</param>
        </input>
        <instance>
            <hostname>10.20.20.92</hostname>
            <port>8000</port>
            <password>xxxxx</password>
            <mount>/radiofree.ogg</mount>
            <reconnectdelay>2</reconnectdelay>
            <reconnectattempts>5</reconnectattempts>
            <maxqueuelength>80</maxqueuelength>
            <encode>
                <nominal-bitrate>16000</nominal-bitrate>
                    <!-- bps. e.g. 64000 for 64 kbps -->
                    <!-- bps. e.g. 32000 optimal for lesser cards -->
                <samplerate>11000</samplerate>
                    <!-- 22050 optimal for older cards -->
                <channels>1</channels>
            <quality>1</quality>
            </encode>
        </instance>
    </stream>
</ices>

The config is pretty simple, a SuSE 8.0 box.  Soundcard is a SB Pro 2
using OSS.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!!!

Thanks!

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On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 21:22, Matthew Fields wrote:
> I have been successful in running a playlist through Ices and Icecast...
> I have run into difficulty running a live stream through the soundcard,
> however...
> 
> The following is the log when I attempt to run ices ices-mylive.xml:
> 
> INFO ices-core/main ices started...
> EROR input-oss/oss_open_module Couldn't set sample format to
AFMT_S16_LE
> EROR input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input module "oss"
> INFO ices-core/main Shutdown complete
It's saying it failed to initialise the driver. This maybe due to some
limitation of the hardware/driver with respect to the specified
samplerate.  Try 11025 or some other common one like 22050 or 44100 and
resample to the wanted rate.
>         <input>
>             <module>oss</module>
>             <param name="rate">11000</param> <!--
samplerate 22050 best-->
>             <param name="channels">1</param> <!--
number of channels -->
>             <param name="device">/dev/dsp</param>
<!-- audio device -->
>             <param name="metadata">0</param>
>             <param
name="metadatafilename">test</param>
>         </input>
Set metadata to 1 if you want the metadata to be read from the file.

karl.

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Thanks for the advice....  I think I might have an easier way to do what I
want (I'm providing an audio stream for an amateur radio club. They'll
plug a radio into the server's soundcard and it'll broadcast the
stream).

I tried using the stdinpcm module and did an "ices ices-stdin.xml <
/dev/audio" and voila!!!

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