Hi, I have been experimenting with having a stream from my desktop computer, so that I can tune in on my PDA while I am cooking in the kitchen for example.
I have mpd installed nicely. The icecast output module for mpd has proven too resource intensive for my 1.6gHz (which shocked me), so I am going to try using ices2 to directly grab what the sound card is playing. Here is the input module section of my ices2.xml: <input> <module>sun</module> <param name="device">/dev/audio</param> <param name="rate">44100</param> <param name="channels">2</param> <param name="metadata">0</param> <!--<param name="metadatafilename">/home/ices/metadata</param>--> </input> So, mpd is playing through the soundcard, the icecast server is up and waiting for sources. # ices2 /etc/ices2.xml [2007-06-20 14:07:46] INFO ices-core/main IceS 2.0.1 started... [2007-06-20 14:07:46] EROR input-sun/sun_open_module Failed to open audio device /dev/audio: Device busy [2007-06-20 14:07:46] EROR input/input_loop Couldn't initialise input module "sun" [2007-06-20 14:07:46] INFO ices-core/main Shutdown complete And ktrace reveals this snippet: 23249 ices2 CALL open(0x885cc770,0,0) 23249 ices2 NAMI "/dev/audio" 23249 ices2 RET open -1 errno 16 Device busy Surely the device should be busy if I am to take data from it? Or have I misunderstood? I have also tried /dev/audio0,sound,sound0 all with no success. Has anyone else had this working? -- Best Regards Edd --------------------------------------------------- http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
