Hallo! We are searching for a streaming-server for a e-learning system at a university and therefore and I wanted to ask some questions: There is a database of recordings on the server, and only registered users (students) are allowed to hear those. So if a user wants to hear record A, then a stream should be opened (maybe a new mount point ?) and only this user should be allowed to hear the stream ... Is this possible with icecast ? And the streams should be also multichannel (2-8 channels, it depends on the record) ... Many thanks for any hints, LG Georg
Hallo!> Icecast is not primarily targeted at on demand streaming. It's an live streaming > server.Yes, I know - I also don't know if it is the right tool for it ... but that's why I'm asking here ;)>>So if a user wants to hear record A, then a stream should be opened >>(maybe a new mount point ?) and only this user should be allowed to hear >>the stream ... >>Is this possible with icecast ? > > It probably would. > (Aber man kann sich auch hintenrum durch die Brust ins Auge schiessen...):) Have you an idea how it would be possible ? I just read the documentation for the config-file about mount-points: http://www.icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.2.0/icecast2_config_file.html#mount But in our situation we would have e.g. 10 listeners in parallel (which here different recordings) and I would have to declare 10 such mount points in that config file ... So is there a way to dynamically set such settings ? Or is there maybe an other (open-source) software, which might be better for our task?>>And the streams should be also multichannel (2-8 channels, it depends on >>the record) ... > > that would probably be possible with ogg/vorbis. You'd need to find > a client software supporting that though.Thanks - I just tried it myself and multichannel is possible with ogg ;) And yes, we have to program a special client software anyway ... Many Thanks, LG Georg
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 03:06:47PM +0000, Georg Holzmann wrote:> Hallo! > > We are searching for a streaming-server for a e-learning system at a > university and therefore and I wanted to ask some questions: > > There is a database of recordings on the server, and only registered > users (students) are allowed to hear those.Icecast is not primarily targeted at on demand streaming. It's an live streaming server.> So if a user wants to hear record A, then a stream should be opened > (maybe a new mount point ?) and only this user should be allowed to hear > the stream ... > Is this possible with icecast ?It probably would. (Aber man kann sich auch hintenrum durch die Brust ins Auge schiessen...)> And the streams should be also multichannel (2-8 channels, it depends on > the record) ...that would probably be possible with ogg/vorbis. You'd need to find a client software supporting that though. Cheers Thomas