I don't know much about icecast or shoutcast. I stream Ogg Vorbis using an Apache web server with mod_mp3 from tangent.org (http://software.tangent.org/projects.pl). It's stable, easy, and it works. But I'm not serving up anywhere near what they would be doing.
Just my $0.00137, Kenny Bruce Dawson wrote: > > A few months ago, I attempted to install an Ogg Vorbis based "broadcast > station" in my house (for use only by the residents of the house - sometimes we > all like to hear the same music, and sometimes we don't). The Vorbis stuff > seemed solid - except it didn't have streaming ability (at least not a few > months ago). There was only one track (of Enya) that wouldn't decode properly - > but that could very well have been the fault of the original copy I had. So I > was very pleased with the Vorbis code (except for the lack of streaming - but I > really didn't need that for the house at the time). > > The real problems were in getting icecast to be something close to reliable. It > crashed or hung at least 3 times a day (on a good day), and I could only get a > single channel to stream. Keep in mind that all this was on the Linux > implementation - I understand the windows implementation was a lot more > reliable. > > If things have become more reliable (in the "production/stable" releases)- I'd > like to know, and I'd like to know how they got it to be so - its worth a talk > at one of the chapters. But I'm afraid that Ogg Vorbis and Icecast aren't ready > for NHPR yet. The developers still need to chew on them a bit more. > > --Bruce > PS: Vorbis and Icecast both have Windows and Linux implementations. -- --------------------------------------------------- Kenneth E. Lussier Geek by nature, Linux by choice PGP KeyID C0D2BA57 Public key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC0D2BA57 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
