Hi Nick,

I am on holidays and don't have easy access to my mail, but since your
question is still un-answered, I'll give it a quick reply.

Liquidsoap always decodes everything to raw PCM, and each output
encodes the raw stream according to its parameters. For example if you
use output.icecast.mp3, the default bitrate is 128 (you can see that
in the API reference or using liquidsoap -h output.icecast.mp3). For
output.icecast.vorbis, the bitrate depends on the quality that you
pick.

So yes, liquidsoap "messes with the bitrate". The parameters of the
output stream is totally independent of the input files.

The stream that the client (liquidsoap) sends to icecast is never
re-encoded before being listened.

Hope that clarified things,

David

On 1/5/09, nick kos <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Internet DJ Console to stream (at 64 kb/s) to a locally installed
> Icecast server.
> I have rented some Icecast server which grubs the stream that my locally
> installed server streams (also at 64kb/s - icecast server has an option
> for this).
> so :
>
> stream client (at 64kb/s) --> locally installed server (also at 64 kb/s)
> --> remote server (at 64 kb/s) --> to the world
>
> Now i would like to use Liquidsoap so that i can have many sources
> (streams - playlist - single file etc) to my locally installed server.
>
> I managed to make a liquidsoap script. This script uses my live
> streaming to the locally installed icecast server and another file and
> works as a fallback between those two "sources".
>
> so:
>
> live streaming to local server \
>                                                     \
>                                                     fallback
> ----(liquidsoap)---->local server --> remote server
>                                                     /
>                                                    /
>                                 another file
>
> what is my problem? well even though i use 64kb/s at the streaming
> client, the "another file" is also at 64kb/s , remote server says that
> what it takes from the local server is at 96kb/s (i made a contract for
> 64kb/s and as a result it stops...). Does liquidsoap mess with the
> bitrate? Is there any way to set it to 64kb/s?
> Thanks in andvance
>
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David

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