William Hetherington
2010-May-06 22:32 UTC
[Icecast] creating a station from the ground up
Hi bob, Well - the upload is the important number when you are talking about delivering to other people. You could quite easily run icecast on a VPS (virtual private server) - it would certainly cost you to do this. I work for a streaming media company though, and could help you set up a station - if you're interested - please e-mail me directly - not through the mailing list. Thanks, William On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:02 PM, bob cavanaugh <bobdavcav at comcast.net> wrote:> Not sure what I have on upload, but download I?ve gotten close to 900 > kbps. Would it cost me anything to get a server? > > > > *From:* icecast-bounces at xiph.org [mailto:icecast-bounces at xiph.org] *On > Behalf Of *William Hetherington > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:59 PM > *To:* icecast at xiph.org > > *Subject:* Re: [Icecast] creating a station from the ground up > > > > Hi Bob, > > > > Well, if you plan to do it from home - it's unlikely you'll be able to > support more than 3 people on a domestic internet connection, broadcasting > at 128kbps.....not sure what you have, connectivity wise there. > > > > Can you run a speedtest? http://speedtest.net > > > > Regards, > > > > William > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Bob Cavanaugh <bobdavcav at comcast.net> > wrote: > > Hi William, Here's what I've got, I don't think getting a server is free, > so will probably do it from the home computer. If I can get a server for > free, that's probably the way I'll go. I'll probably stream at 128 kbps. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Hetherington <william.hetherington at gmail.com > To: icecast at xiph.org > Date sent: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:39:40 -0700 > Subject: Re: [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/20100506/6092a91c/attachment.htm>