Icecast - Aug 2004 - IceCast as a WinXP Service?? plus 2 Qs more..

Hello!

I am a student in a university department here in Greece, and we are
developing a WebCast solution for our new radio station we have made. We
work with Oddcast plugin for WinAMP, which connects to an IceCast_v2 server,
which runs on a WinXP machine.

I would like to ask for 2 major issues we face:

 

-> Because we have some problems with the weather conditions here and
sometimes the electricity fails and our pc's turn off, we have adjusted them
to restart automatically. The http servers and some other applications we
manage run as services on winXP, and we do not bother for restarting them.
But, can we make the iceCast server to run as a service as well? So, to
start automatically, without the need of sb of us to log in and run the
server, is there any solution for this?

 

-> Secondly, can we make mirrors of our stream to other pc's on our
University departments (which they may be either Windows or Linux machines),
so to send them our stream and vice versa? It is sth like relaying. We work
here on Windows machines mainly.

 

-> And something other: can we find any solution (script code) for making a
Flash player for OGG/MP3 streams (OGG preferably)? We want to make a small
Flash "WebPANEL" for our website. In this panel, we want to load a
movie
(the one with the script that plays the stream) as an instance or sth, and
to add the ability for the users to select some different streams from our
different webradio stations of our departments. So, with this service, we
collect the streams we want, we give the ability to the user to select one
and play/hear it live, through the Flash player. Additionally, we may add
some controls for the volume etc... if anyone tries to develop sth like
that, or can help us, we would be very pleased, and we would be happy to
start a talk on that!

_______________________________________________
Ioannis Apostolopoulos |  <BLOCKED::http://www.aegean.gr/> University
<BLOCKED::http://www.aegean.gr/>  of the Aegean
 <BLOCKED::http://www.syros.aegean.gr/> dept. of Product & Systems
Design
Engineeering
user's  <BLOCKED::http://www.syros.aegean.gr/users/dpsd02005> web |
<BLOCKED::mailto:dpsd02005@syros.aegean.gr> email
 <http://my.aegean.gr> MYaegean dev team
myaegean@aegean.gr <mailto:myaegean@aegean.gr> 

 

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On Thursday 22 April 2004 05:52, Apostolopoulos Ioannis
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am a student in a university department here in Greece, and we are
> developing a WebCast solution for our new radio station we have made. We
> work with Oddcast plugin for WinAMP, which connects to an IceCast_v2
> server, which runs on a WinXP machine.
>
> I would like to ask for 2 major issues we face:
>
>
>
> -> Because we have some problems with the weather conditions here and
> sometimes the electricity fails and our pc's turn off, we have adjusted
> them to restart automatically. The http servers and some other applications
> we manage run as services on winXP, and we do not bother for restarting
> them. But, can we make the iceCast server to run as a service as well? So,
> to start automatically, without the need of sb of us to log in and run the
> server, is there any solution for this?
Icecast doesn't run as a service on win32 currently. I'm sure a
competent
windows programmer could make it do so if they wanted to.

<p>>
>
>
> -> Secondly, can we make mirrors of our stream to other pc's on our
> University departments (which they may be either Windows or Linux
> machines), so to send them our stream and vice versa? It is sth like
> relaying. We work here on Windows machines mainly.
Your question here is very unclearly phrased, but I think the answer is
"no,
you can't do that with icecast". You can probably, however, get much of
the
same effect using relays and fallbacks.

Mike

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You can get some software to make an executable run as a service.

Here http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/nt_service.html is a link to some
software that indicates it will do this.

If you google around more, i am sure you might find something better.

Also, relays are the way to replicate a stream. I am not sure you can do
this with the windows port of icecast.

One more thing, try using linux instead of windows, and it will be better
(free, stable, straightforward, learnable, etc..).

Alex Martin
http://www.rettc.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Smith" <msmith@xiph.org>
To: <icecast@xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] IceCast as a WinXP Service?? plus 2 Qs more..

<p>> On Thursday 22 April 2004 05:52, Apostolopoulos Ioannis
wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am a student in a university department here in Greece, and we are
> > developing a WebCast solution for our new radio station we have made.
We
> > work with Oddcast plugin for WinAMP, which connects to an IceCast_v2
> > server, which runs on a WinXP machine.
> >
> > I would like to ask for 2 major issues we face:
> >
> >
> >
> > -> Because we have some problems with the weather conditions here
and
> > sometimes the electricity fails and our pc's turn off, we have
adjusted
> > them to restart automatically. The http servers and some other
applications
> > we manage run as services on winXP, and we do not bother for
restarting
> > them. But, can we make the iceCast server to run as a service as well?
So,
> > to start automatically, without the need of sb of us to log in and run
the
> > server, is there any solution for this?
>
> Icecast doesn't run as a service on win32 currently. I'm sure a
competent
> windows programmer could make it do so if they wanted to.
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > -> Secondly, can we make mirrors of our stream to other pc's on
our
> > University departments (which they may be either Windows or Linux
> > machines), so to send them our stream and vice versa? It is sth like
> > relaying. We work here on Windows machines mainly.
>
> Your question here is very unclearly phrased, but I think the answer is
"no,
> you can't do that with icecast". You can probably, however, get
much of
the
> same effect using relays and fallbacks.
>
> Mike
>
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One more link,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;137890

I use djb's daemon tools for running icecast2 and ices.
http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

-Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Smith" <msmith@xiph.org>
To: <icecast@xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] IceCast as a WinXP Service?? plus 2 Qs more..

<p>> On Thursday 22 April 2004 05:52, Apostolopoulos Ioannis
wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am a student in a university department here in Greece, and we are
> > developing a WebCast solution for our new radio station we have made.
We
> > work with Oddcast plugin for WinAMP, which connects to an IceCast_v2
> > server, which runs on a WinXP machine.
> >
> > I would like to ask for 2 major issues we face:
> >
> >
> >
> > -> Because we have some problems with the weather conditions here
and
> > sometimes the electricity fails and our pc's turn off, we have
adjusted
> > them to restart automatically. The http servers and some other
applications
> > we manage run as services on winXP, and we do not bother for
restarting
> > them. But, can we make the iceCast server to run as a service as well?
So,
> > to start automatically, without the need of sb of us to log in and run
the
> > server, is there any solution for this?
>
> Icecast doesn't run as a service on win32 currently. I'm sure a
competent
> windows programmer could make it do so if they wanted to.
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > -> Secondly, can we make mirrors of our stream to other pc's on
our
> > University departments (which they may be either Windows or Linux
> > machines), so to send them our stream and vice versa? It is sth like
> > relaying. We work here on Windows machines mainly.
>
> Your question here is very unclearly phrased, but I think the answer is
"no,
> you can't do that with icecast". You can probably, however, get
much of
the
> same effect using relays and fallbacks.
>
> Mike
>
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