[Icecast] Problem with fallback on 2.31 on Windows XP

Marvin Scholz
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:33:01 -0000

Could you post the config you used with comments?
Currently there is at least one closing comment tag without a opening tag
as far as I can see, which is confusing.
If that is the file you are using, maybe you accidentally commented it out?
Despite that it should works, but all of the paths in the config need to be
adjusted for Windows!

On 29 Nov 2015, at 22:16, Steve Matzura wrote:

> If this isn't supported, then I apologize for the disruption, I'll
> just tell my customer / client / friend it's time to seriously rethink
> what they're trying to do. If support is possible, here's the
problem:
>
> I took a running icecast.xml file from a configuration that works. It
> has live, backup, and listener (called /broadband) mount points. A
> continuously running stream connects to /backup to provide a fallback,
> another stream can connect to /live, and listeners listen on
> /broadband. This config worked on a 2.42 Linux system, so I just
> dropped it into place as-is on the 2.31 XP system, but it does not
> work. The stream can connect to /backup, but when a listener tries to
> connect to /broadband, they get 404 in their media player. I suspect
> I've bungled the relay or fallback setup and would greatly appreciate
> help fixing it.
>
> Here's the XML with the comment lines removed to make it shorter:
>
> <icecast>
>   <limits>
>       <clients>100</clients>
>       <sources>2</sources>
>       <threadpool>5</threadpool>
>       <queue-size>524288</queue-size>
>       <client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
>       <header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
>       <source-timeout>10</source-timeout>
>       <burst-on-connect>1</burst-on-connect>
>       <burst-size>65535</burst-size>
>   </limits>
>
>   <authentication>
>       <source-password>oliver88</source-password>
>       <relay-password>oliver770</relay-password>
>
>       <admin-user>tyler</admin-user>
>       <admin-password>hackme</admin-password>
>   </authentication>
>
>
>   <hostname>192.168.1.10</hostname>
>
>       <listen-socket>
>       <port>8000</port>
>       </listen-socket>
>
>      <mount>
>       <mount-name>/broadband</mount-name>
>
>       <username>tyler</username>
>       <password>oliver88</password>
>
>       <max-listeners>5</max-listeners>
>       <dump-file>/tmp/dump-example1.ogg</dump-file>
>       <burst-size>65536</burst-size>
>       <fallback-mount>/live</fallback-mount>
>       <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>       <fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
>       <intro>/example_intro.ogg</intro>
>       <hidden>1</hidden>
>       <no-yp>1</no-yp>
>       <authentication type="htpasswd">
>               <option name="filename"
value="myauth"/>
>               <option name="allow_duplicate_users"
value="0"/>
>       </authentication>
>
<on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/broadband-connect</on-connect>
>
<on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/broadband-disconnect</on-disconnect>
>   </mount>
>
>   <mount>
>       <mount-name>/live</mount-name>
>
>       <username>othersource</username>
>       <password>oliver88</password>
>
>       <max-listeners>5</max-listeners>
>       <dump-file>/tmp/dump-example1.ogg</dump-file>
>       <burst-size>65536</burst-size>
>       <fallback-mount>/backup</fallback-mount>
>       <fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
>       <fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
>       <intro>/example_intro.ogg</intro>
>       <hidden>1</hidden>
>       <no-yp>1</no-yp>
>       <authentication type="htpasswd">
>               <option name="filename"
value="myauth"/>
>               <option name="allow_duplicate_users"
value="0"/>
>       </authentication>
>
<on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/broadband-connect</on-connect>
>
<on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/broadband-disconnect</on-disconnect>
>   </mount>
>
>   <mount>
>       <mount-name>/backup</mount-name>
>       <authentication type="url">
>           <option name="mount_add"
> value="http://myauthserver.net/notify_mount.php"/>
>           <option name="mount_remove"
> value="http://myauthserver.net/notify_mount.php"/>
>           <option name="listener_add"
> value="http://myauthserver.net/notify_listener.php"/>
>           <option name="listener_remove"
> value="http://myauthserver.net/notify_listener.php"/>
>       </authentication>
>   </mount>
>
>   -->
>
>   <fileserve>1</fileserve>
>
>   <!-- set the mountpoint for a shoutcast source to use, the default
> if not
>        specified is /stream but you can change it here if an
> alternative is
>        wanted or an extension is required
>   <shoutcast-mount>/backup</shoutcast-mount>
>   -->
>
>   <paths>
>
>       <basedir>./</basedir>
>
>       <!-- Note that if <chroot> is turned on below, these paths
> must both
>            be relative to the new root, not the original root -->
>       <logdir>./logs</logdir>
>       <webroot>./web</webroot>
>       <adminroot>./admin</adminroot>
>
>       <alias source="/foo" dest="/bar"/>
>       <alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>
>   </paths>
>
>   <logging>
>       <accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
>       <errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
>       <!-- <playlistlog>playlist.log</playlistlog> -->
>     	<loglevel>4</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1
Error
> -->
>     	<logsize>10000</logsize> <!-- Max size of a logfile
-->
>
>   <security>
>       <chroot>0</chroot>
>   </security>
> </icecast>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
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