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I don't think this is a problem. Icecast is such a application. All you need is to install the server somewhere on a shell and use a client such as ices to stream to the server. How to install these 2 Applications is very easy, and mainly depending on the operating system you want to use. I recommend you to use DR DOS. Its a Operating System with roots in the early 70's its small and fast like hell, and almost unknown. It has a compiler and you can compile Icecast on it. The oficial Site is http://www.drdos.com/ inofficial sites are http://www.drdos.net/ or http://www.drdos.org/ http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php <http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/%7Ea0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php> [...] Modern DOS systems like Enhanced Dr-DOS and FreeDOS have much more features than old MS-DOS - so forget about old days of MS-DOS. ;-) DOS is the only family of operating system which can play your mp3s, check your e-mails or browse the internet and only needs /~20 MB RAM/ and /0.1GB/ of hard disk. You can f.e. start a mp3 player one second after BIOS check (Mpxplay <http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/%7Ea0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Mediaplayers>). Linux tools can be easily ported like Mplayer <http://www.mplayerhq.hu>. Some Windows software are able to run in DOS using HX DOS <http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/%7Ea0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.HX-DOS> Extender. With 4DOS <http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/%7Ea0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.4DOS> a command line exists which is much better than Windows CMD or Bash. And most software is under an open source license (f.e. FreeDOS under GPL). [...] Christian Am 05.05.2010 23:39, schrieb bob cavanaugh:> > Hey all, I am looking to start my own station, but don't know where do > start. I have edcast, so will use that to originate my programs. > However, how do I set up a server to broadcast to? Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20100506/9d924e14/attachment.htm>
William Hetherington
2010-May-06 01:39 UTC
[Icecast] creating a station from the ground up
Hi bob, If you can give up some basic info - we can help you get started! How many people do you expect to listen to your streams? (Or better question: how many would you like to be able to support?) Do you know what bitrate your stream will be? Do you intend to rent a server - or run this from your home connection? If rented - What operating system will you be choosing? If you want to set something up in your home do you: a) Have a computer to run it on (it can be the same one you run Icecast on) b) What kind of internet connection do you have? The number of people you can support is directly relational to the upload capacity of your connection (and your stream bit rate) If you can answer these questions we can give you a much better idea! If you want some to just do all this for you, please feel free to send me a mail off-list, william.hetherington at gmail.com - I'd be happy to help. Regards, William Hetherington willskills.com <http://www.willskills.com> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:39 PM, bob cavanaugh <bobdavcav at comcast.net> wrote:> Hey all, I am looking to start my own station, but don?t know where do > start. I have edcast, so will use that to originate my programs. However, > how do I set up a server to broadcast to? Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast/attachments/20100505/e066c9bf/attachment.htm>
What to start a server from the ground up?
First off the most impotent thing you need is upstream Bandwidth,
it don't mater how good your equipment is, your bandwidth is the most
impotent part of building a icecast server. First decide on how many
streams you want to host (the speed of them), Our main streams are
low quality audio stream, like old time radio sometimes :) But we are
talking it for audio announcements of sports events :) So we can
expect 42 users per 1/M upload speed on the line. We were able to
handle about 90 users on the 2 cable modem lines, and we rented
overflow servers. Now on Fios, 30M/30M we expect 1200+ listeners. On
the same servers. Once you found out what kind of bandwidth you have
to work with you can think about stetting up your server :)
I would recommend a computer that 2 t o3 years old :) It don't have
to be a modern computer. Our servers been running several years now,
and they where bough as used business machines off of ebay then. (for
about 500 USD each) We have a pair of them because we had 2 cable
feeding the servers. Since then we have updated to a FIOS connection
and happy with that. And changed one server to the streaming server
and the other to an audio archive server.
Next a operating system.. Well i would recommend linux , which one, we
are using fedora on ours, but I have personal one running on debian.
Why i recommend this over windows? Well you have to reboot a windows
server every now and then, our servers have 3 months on them and only
was rebooted cause of OS updates. The drawback to this is, you may
have problems knowing how to sftp into the server and edit the
icecast.xml file.
Also for servers, you can rent streaming servers depending on what you
need done. In hte days before we had fios we rented up to 3 remote
servers, only because they would limit the number of mounts you could
have on them at a time.
Now for a stream encoder. This is the client ran on the users computer
to source the stream. Well you can use most of hte modern mp3 players,
many have icecast server capacity. We recommend setting up the edcast
server for our clients. its simple to set up and runs in windows.
Well that it in a nutshell. I maintain the server for our service.
Basically i fix them if they break. Which is due to an update or
something i do. :)
biggest thing in setting up a servers is the bandwidth for most people. :)
David