I recently installed Icecast2 on my XP Home Laptop. My goal is to get the audio from my vhf/uhf scanner, whose audio out is connected to the laptop's mic port, out as a stream so I can listen to it when away from home (like from work). I can hear the scanner fine through the laptop's speakers, but although I've read the documentation for the Icecast2 server configuration, I'm still not sure how to pipe the scanner audio to a form[at] IC2 can use. Then, how to configure the IC2 config file to tell IC2 to send the audio out onto the Internet. The install of the IC2 server under XP was flawless, whereas I had problems with a Debian install, of which I also have experience. So, if anyone can help me get my scanner's audio successfully out on an Internet stream, please show me the way. Windows or Linux, whatever works. Thanks. Scott
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Scott R Ehrlich wrote:> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:02:33 -0400 > From: Scott R Ehrlich <scott@MIT.EDU> > To: icecast@xiph.org > Subject: [Icecast] Help with streaming audio... > > I recently installed Icecast2 on my XP Home Laptop. My goal is to get the > audio from my vhf/uhf scanner, whose audio out is connected to the laptop's mic > port, out as a stream so I can listen to it when away from home (like from > work).I think you want to take line output from your scanner and plug it into line input on your laptop's sound chip. Line out doesn't go to mic; only computer mics go there. -- Robert Muchnick Xenterra.net 720-276-7917
Scott R Ehrlich wrote:> I recently installed Icecast2 on my XP Home Laptop. My goal is to get the > audio from my vhf/uhf scanner, whose audio out is connected to the laptop's mic > port, out as a stream so I can listen to it when away from home (like from > work). > > I can hear the scanner fine through the laptop's speakers, but although I've > read the documentation for the Icecast2 server configuration, I'm still not > sure how to pipe the scanner audio to a form[at] IC2 can use. Then, how to > configure the IC2 config file to tell IC2 to send the audio out onto the > Internet. > > The install of the IC2 server under XP was flawless, whereas I had problems with > a Debian install, of which I also have experience. > > So, if anyone can help me get my scanner's audio successfully out on an Internet > stream, please show me the way. Windows or Linux, whatever works.You still need a program which can take the audio, encode it, and send it to Icecast. You can use Oddcast in standalone mode to make this happen. -I -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3347 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20060717/51603993/smime.bin
Quoting Robert Muchnick <hostmaster@xenterra.net>:> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Scott R Ehrlich wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:02:33 -0400 >> From: Scott R Ehrlich <scott@MIT.EDU> >> To: icecast@xiph.org >> Subject: [Icecast] Help with streaming audio... >> >> I recently installed Icecast2 on my XP Home Laptop. My goal is to get the >> audio from my vhf/uhf scanner, whose audio out is connected to the >> laptop's mic >> port, out as a stream so I can listen to it when away from home (like from >> work). > > I think you want to take line output from your scanner and plug it > into line input on your laptop's sound chip. Line out doesn't go to > mic; only computer mics go there. >I would but, on this model laptop, there are only headphone and mic jacks. Line in would have been my first choice, too. But, whatever helps get the audio in ;-) Scott> -- > Robert Muchnick > Xenterra.net > 720-276-7917 > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >
Quoting "Ian A. Underwood" <agentgrn@dcne.net>:> Scott R Ehrlich wrote: >> I recently installed Icecast2 on my XP Home Laptop. My goal is to get the >> audio from my vhf/uhf scanner, whose audio out is connected to the >> laptop's mic >> port, out as a stream so I can listen to it when away from home (like from >> work). >> >> I can hear the scanner fine through the laptop's speakers, but although I've >> read the documentation for the Icecast2 server configuration, I'm still not >> sure how to pipe the scanner audio to a form[at] IC2 can use. Then, how to >> configure the IC2 config file to tell IC2 to send the audio out onto the >> Internet. >> >> The install of the IC2 server under XP was flawless, whereas I had >> problems with >> a Debian install, of which I also have experience. >> >> So, if anyone can help me get my scanner's audio successfully out on >> an Internet >> stream, please show me the way. Windows or Linux, whatever works. > > You still need a program which can take the audio, encode it, and > send it to Icecast. You can use Oddcast in standalone mode to make > this happen. >Great! I grabbed and configured it. I was still hoping Icecast would magically see it, but I continue to be unable to connect to the audio stream from another machine on my lan. The config file for IC2 is not complicated, but there are clearly some other pieces I am missing :-( I was able to monitor some of the audio level, which is certainly a good sign! Other leads to complete the project... Thanks again. Scott> -I >