Hi, Actually, I thought that Icecast did support seeking for static files. Of course it doesn't for a live stream. Geoff. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas B. Ruecker" <dm8tbr@afthd.tu-darmstadt.de> To: "Horacio Sanson" <hsanson@gmail.com>; <icecast@xiph.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [Icecast] Streaming to Doja devices Horacio Sanson schrieb:> Doja devices (NTT Mobile Phones) are very limited in their > connectivity capabilities and was wondering if icecast can help me > overcome them. The first limitation is that they only support HTTP > that as I can see would not be a problem with icecast. The second > limitation is that these Doja devices cannot transfer more than 150KB > of data per HTTP connection so I can not simply establish one > connection to the streaming server (keep-alive) and download all the > stream. > > So the question is if icecast supports some sort of burst mode were I > can establish connections in sequence and download pieces of the > stream each time. I saw some burst related options in the > configuration file but looks like is only for connection establishment > and after that we get a continuous stream of data. > > If someone knows a streaming server that can send data in bursts of > specific size I would greatly appreciate the information.maybe not streaming, but seeking inside a file. many http servers support this. But it would need a special piece of software on the device to make those requests. icecast certainly will not do what you want. Cheers Thomas _______________________________________________ Icecast mailing list Icecast@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
Thanks for the replies... it looks I will have to implement my own streamming server.... A question unrelated to icecast: what format (Ogg, Matroska, WMV, MP4) would be more appropiate to handle streaming in bursts?? I think maybe Ogg is good for this as the server can keep state information of the last stream/page a client downloaded and send the next group of pages when the client requests more data. MP4 format uses a single data box that contains all media (as I understand) that would require me to implement a mechanism to split and keep track of the data send. any comments appreciated.... Horacio On 10/23/07, Geoff Shang <Geoff@quitelikely.com> wrote:> Hi, > > Actually, I thought that Icecast did support seeking for static files. Of > course it doesn't for a live stream. > > Geoff. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas B. Ruecker" <dm8tbr@afthd.tu-darmstadt.de> > To: "Horacio Sanson" <hsanson@gmail.com>; <icecast@xiph.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:01 PM > Subject: Re: [Icecast] Streaming to Doja devices > > > Horacio Sanson schrieb: > > Doja devices (NTT Mobile Phones) are very limited in their > > connectivity capabilities and was wondering if icecast can help me > > overcome them. The first limitation is that they only support HTTP > > that as I can see would not be a problem with icecast. The second > > limitation is that these Doja devices cannot transfer more than 150KB > > of data per HTTP connection so I can not simply establish one > > connection to the streaming server (keep-alive) and download all the > > stream. > > > > So the question is if icecast supports some sort of burst mode were I > > can establish connections in sequence and download pieces of the > > stream each time. I saw some burst related options in the > > configuration file but looks like is only for connection establishment > > and after that we get a continuous stream of data. > > > > If someone knows a streaming server that can send data in bursts of > > specific size I would greatly appreciate the information. > maybe not streaming, but seeking inside a file. many http servers > support this. But it would need a special piece of software on the > device to make those requests. icecast certainly will not do what you want. > > Cheers > > Thomas > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast > >
On 10/25/07, Horacio Sanson <hsanson@gmail.com> wrote:> A question unrelated to icecast: what format (Ogg, Matroska, WMV, MP4) would > be more appropiate to handle streaming in bursts?Ogg is very likely to do what you want. The problem is finding software that makes it behave like that. Icecast isn't prepared for this. However, from the little I know about it, I believe Icecast may be expanded to support a "burst mode". Why don't you give it a try? Ogg is also good because it can carry pretty much anything, which the other containers you mentioned (besides Matroska, which doesn't count because it is not for streaming) can't. Video, audio, and applications. That's Ogg. Do I sound biased? Well, it is a Xiph list. -Ivo