Steve Matzura
2017-May-17 14:29 UTC
[Icecast] Frauenhofer signing off on mp3, ogg stream player for Macs?
Is there a way to run Darkice without an audio interface? On Tue, 16 May 2017 10:25:43 +1200, you wrote:>Jack, > >I am using AAC+ encoded by Darkice and distributed on Icecast2 on a >Ubuntu server. I had to install a number of open source libraries and >compile darkice from source. No licence. > >non-free means you build each one stand alone and can't re distribute. > >Quality is excellent, and it runs on most players. > >I kept some notes [see below] > >I am using AAC+ to feed a couple of LPFM sites with almost zero errors >over what had been troublesome paths for mp3 > >HE-AAC audio v2 (with SBR + PS) is the superb audio encoder used to >encode high quality audio at really low bitrates (32 kbit/s). Quote from >Wikipedia "Data from this testing also indicated that some individuals >confused 48 kbit/s encoded material with an uncompressed original." > >In order to quickly compile your ?libaacplus library, you can type the >following commands in your shell: > ># apt-get install libfftw3-dev pkg-config autoconf automake libtool unzip >$ wget >http://tipok.org.ua/downloads/media/aacplus/libaacplus/libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz >$ tar -xzf libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz >$ cd libaacplus-2.0.2 >$ ./autogen.sh --enable-shared --enable-static >$ make ># make install ># ldconfig > >P.S. If you are using Ubuntu, you'll most probably have to use sudo for >the last 2 commands, like: > >$ sudo make install >$ sudo ldconfig > >In case that website above (hosting libaacplus) goes offline, you can >download the copy of that tar.gz file from here: (MD5: >3fc15d5aa91d0e8b8f94acb6555103da) > >$ wget http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/uploads/libaacplus-2.0.2.tar.gz > >More info at: ?http://tipok.org.ua/node/17 > >NOTE: libaacplus is a non-free library, so you won't be able to build >GPL alike FFmpeg with this library, i.e. your FFmpeg will not be >redistributable. > > > >regards > > >Robert Jeffares > > >On 16/05/17 09:46, Jack Elliott wrote: >> Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits has stopped providing >> licenses for MP3 technology, "[...] noting that more superior audio >> formats have rendered the MP3 obsolete. Speaking to National Public >> Radio (USA), the Fraunhofer Institute said AAC has since become the >> 'de facto standard for music download and videos on mobile phones.' " >> >> http://www.networkworld.com/article/3196788/consumer-electronics/mp3-player-ipod-licensing-dead.html >> >> >> This raises a point I wanted to ask about. Icecast supports mp3 (it's >> the current lowest-common denominator for media players, yes?) and >> ogg. I'd like to send a higher-fidelity stream from our music festival >> remotes, but ogg isn't an option because the station's media player, >> iTunes (running on a Mac) doesn't support ogg. >> >> Is there any work being done to support AAC in Icecast? Oh, wait. Use >> of AAC in an encoder requires paying a licensing fee. Drat. >> >> So we have mp3 (free, sounds crummy, everything plays it) and ogg >> (free, sounds better, but does anyone know of any programs for Macs >> that can play an ogg stream?) >> > >_______________________________________________ >Icecast mailing list >Icecast at xiph.org >http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
Hi all, we have an industrial strength server acting as a relay for several services using Icecast2. Some of the stations have installed two seperate broadband connections to guard against network outages, which do occur and can last several hours. Exploring the fallback option we find it is limited to different mounts on the same server. What we want to do is have two different Icecast2 servers, on two different IP addresses with the relay server picking which ever is 'up'. There is a chance someone has already figured this out. [hope hope] regards Robert Jeffares
Please do not highjack another thread, this is a very annoying thing to do. You might have done it by accident, clicking reply on an email and manually changing the subject to a completely different one. Do not do that for mailing lists, your mail will still have a header saying it is a reply to the email you are replying to. What you do instead is create a new email and write it to the address of the list, not a reply. Thanks. No need to resend of course, but please remember it for future threads.> Am 24.05.2017 um 08:28 schrieb Robert Jeffares <jeffares.robert at gmail.com>: > > Hi all, > we have an industrial strength server acting as a relay for several services using Icecast2. > > Some of the stations have installed two seperate broadband connections to guard against network outages, which do occur and can last several hours. > > Exploring the fallback option we find it is limited to different mounts on the same server. > > What we want to do is have two different Icecast2 servers, on two different IP addresses with the relay server picking which ever is 'up'. > > There is a chance someone has already figured this out. [hope hope] > > regards > Robert Jeffares > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast at xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
This sounds like you need load balancing in front of your icecast servers, mod_proxy_balancer and mod_proxy_http modules if you use Apache. Unfortunately, I've never done this personally :P On 24 May 2017 6:28:54 PM NZST, Robert Jeffares <jeffares.robert at gmail.com> wrote:>Hi all, >we have an industrial strength server acting as a relay for several >services using Icecast2. > >Some of the stations have installed two seperate broadband connections >to guard against network outages, which do occur and can last several >hours. > >Exploring the fallback option we find it is limited to different mounts > >on the same server. > >What we want to do is have two different Icecast2 servers, on two >different IP addresses with the relay server picking which ever is >'up'. > >There is a chance someone has already figured this out. [hope hope] > >regards >Robert Jeffares >_______________________________________________ >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/20170525/5cb219b2/attachment.html>