Icecast - Nov 2013 - settings for ices with ubuntu 13.10 on VPS

Hi all. so I have configured my ices configuration but another question has come
up for me. the stream is started, but when I go and play it back from my
computer just to test it, it buffers like crazy. like, I?m running iTunes and it
will say, ?opening URL, reading stream?. for a few seconds and then everything
will be find but I only will get a little  clip or sound of audio for like a
milla second and then stop. does anyone have any settings that I should change
in order for my audio to play properly on my server? Again, I?m using a ubuntu
server running 13.10 and it?s on a VPS. If you can help me with this, I would be
very grateful.

Hi,

On 11/14/2013 01:40 PM, jonathan candler wrote:
> Hi all. so I have configured my ices configuration but another question has
come up for me. the stream is started, but when I go and play it back from my
computer just to test it, it buffers like crazy. like, I?m running iTunes and it
will say, ?opening URL, reading stream?. for a few seconds and then everything
will be find but I only will get a little  clip or sound of audio for like a
milla second and then stop.
Try with a known good player. In case of an ogg-vorbis stream, even a
recent Firefox will play the stream directly (not the .m3u, without that
at the end). Or use VLC.
>  does anyone have any settings that I should change in order for my audio
to play properly on my server? Again, I?m using a ubuntu server running 13.10
and it?s on a VPS. If you can help me with this, I would be very grateful.
Just as a side note, depending on the virtualization used, real time
reencoding of audio is quite error prone. The stream will get corrupted
due to timing jitter or something like that.
If you are just going through a playlist of ogg vorbis files with ices2
and don't reencode, then everything should be fine.

Hope that helps.

Thomas

On Thu, 14 Nov 2013, "Thomas B. R?cker" wrote:
> Just as a side note, depending on the virtualization used, real time
> reencoding of audio is quite error prone. The stream will get corrupted
> due to timing jitter or something like that.
> If you are just going through a playlist of ogg vorbis files with ices2
> and don't reencode, then everything should be fine.
I've seen several people report problems like this, but I've never 
experienced it.  I run an Internet radio station on a VM.  Our automation 
encodes, adds dynamic compression and does crossfading, as well as 
transcoding to a narrowband stream, and it copes nicely.  Of course, if I 
start up more encoder processes, I run into trouble, but this works for 
me.

to the original poster, maybe post the link to your stream if you're 
comfortable doing that, and we can see if it works for any of us.

Geoff.