Icecast - Aug 2004 - Shout: "couldn't connect"

I am running Icecast 1.3.12-debian, with libshout 2.0 and Shout 2.0.1. When I
run example.pl in the Shout build directory directory, I get the error
"couldn't connect..." I'm not sure where to look to unravel
this error. Icecast
is working fine and streaming static files smoothly.

Paul wrote:
> I am running Icecast 1.3.12-debian, with libshout 2.0 and Shout 2.0.1.
> When I run example.pl in the Shout build directory directory, I get
> the error "couldn't connect..." I'm not sure where to
look to unravel
> this error. Icecast is working fine and streaming static files smoothly.
The reason is that Icecast 1.x doesn't support the HTTP shout protocol.
You would need to change the line
$conn->protocol(SHOUT_PROTOCOL_HTTP);
to
$conn->protocol(SHOUT_PROTOCOL_XAUDIOCAST);
to make example.pl work with Icecast 1.x. (For anyone else on the
mailing list who is wondering, this is all about the Shout.pm Perl
library and the example script distributed with it.)

But you will be much better off in the long run if you just start using
Icecast 2.x instead. Not to mention that Icecast 1.x doesn't support Ogg
Vorbis.

-- jeremy

Hi:

I'm guessing, but quite possibly the example uses the icecast 2.0 HTTP
method of connecting, not the xaudiocast method used in icecast 1.x.
You'll need to use something like ices 0.3 which you can get from
icecast.org in order to connect to an icecast 1.x server.

Note that icecast 1.x is no longer maintained and is therefore no longer
supported by the developers.

Geoff.