Icecast - Jun 2014 - dynamic source creation?

hello,

now that i have dynamic source auth working fine, i wonder if it's possible
to also create a souce dynamically, i.e. without defining a specific
mount in icecast.xml? I've seen some hints, but havn't found it in the 
docs. tips appreciated, thanks,
uno

On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, uno wrote:
> now that i have dynamic source auth working fine, i wonder if it's
possible
> to also create a souce dynamically, i.e. without defining a specific
> mount in icecast.xml? I've seen some hints, but havn't found it in
the
> docs. tips appreciated, thanks,
To do this, you need to use the global source password specified in the 
config file.  You just use that password and specify the mountpoint in 
the client.

I'm not aware of any way to do global source auth that would allow for 
separate passwords for dynamic mount creation, but I'm also not really 
aware of a use case for this either.

Geoff.

On 06/08/2014 06:11 PM, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, uno wrote:
>
>> now that i have dynamic source auth working fine, i wonder if it's
possible
>> to also create a souce dynamically, i.e. without defining a specific
>> mount in icecast.xml? I've seen some hints, but havn't found it
in the
>> docs. tips appreciated, thanks,
> To do this, you need to use the global source password specified in the 
> config file.  You just use that password and specify the mountpoint in 
> the client.
That's the "quick and dirty" option.
> I'm not aware of any way to do global source auth that would allow for 
> separate passwords for dynamic mount creation, but I'm also not really 
> aware of a use case for this either.
This was already in 2.3.3, you can just use stream_auth
http://icecast.org/docs/icecast-2.4.0/icecast2_auth.html (scroll to the
bottom)

You can combine this with: default mount
Sorry, no official docs. Seems to have slipped through. But the Original
ticket has enough info:
https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/1914#comment:1
Start with <mount type="default">
In this case the <mount>-block MUST NOT contain a <mount-name>!

If you do this, you can basically do most things outside of Icecast to
manage authentication and a few other things. Pretty powerful features.

Cheers

Thomas