I got a question about the latest svn changes. The new output.icecast work perfectly. However I can't get shoutcast outputs working.
unbound symbol output.shoutcast unbound symbol output.shoutcast.mp3 any idea ? 2009/12/17 Romain Beauxis <[email protected]> > Hi ! > > Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009 09:52:31, Marcin Lewandowski a écrit : > > I wonder how many users will use that feature. > > > > I work in a FM radio station, we create huge automation system. > Liquidsoap > > was considered as being heart of one, and it performs now that function, > > but temporarily. We had made a decision to switch to our own solution, > > based propably on GStreamer, after a few disappointments. > > > > Basically, I use liquidsoap for last +/- 3 years, and there were at least > a > > few moments that officialy released package wasn't stable or suffered > from > > regressions. To mention only one of them, not more that a few months ago, > > ALSA output just stopped working after upgrade. Radio systems are > realtime, > > critical systems, they MUST WORK, and I think you had already forgot that > > truth. The next big design change, that you had mentioned in your mail, > is > > just a next opportunity to make new bugs. And please tell me, who uses > now > > MIDI in the TV or radio? I've already stopped relying on liquidsoap, but > > that is the final argument to switch. > > Just to add a few words over what David and Samuel have say. > > Believe it or not, stability is a major issue for us. If you look at, for > instance, the changelog of the latest stable release, a lot of work was put > into testing and fixing issues. > > Now, building a complex system is not an easy task. The internal logic of > the > software is a first issue, but also dependencies on external other systems. > > The issue you mention with ALSA is a good example of this. I wonder if you > have ever looked at ALSA's API, but, to my point, ALSA is a major mistake > for > the sound support in linux. It is neither properly low or high level, and > its > API is very complicated and undocumented, and suffers from issues from one > release or another, or one card or another. > > On top of that, we try to do our best, but that often means providing > several > other alternatives, such as pulseaudio or JACK. I've also spent an > enourmous > time on trying to have a stable JACK support, for instance, so I take your > comment somehow personally. > > As the other have said, we do not make any money from this software, nor > require any from our users, and nevertheless, we put a lot of work into it > and > never refused any contribution. > > Even more, we provide a trac system for reporting issues, and, in the past, > when users have taken the time to report issues, I believe we've given them > as > much feedback as we can, leading to fixes and new features. > > About the new features, we believe that an automation system for video > extending our previous technology for audio would be a very interesting > feature. We are not aware of any other software that can do it, and > somehow, > video streaming is probably the next step after audio for internet > broadcasting. > > Now, I wonder why this mail, which is to my knowledge your first contact > with > us, carries so much frustration. Have you tried to contact us to share your > issues during those +/- 3 years you've been using liquidsoap ? > > As we the other, I wish you sucess for your projects, nevertheless, but I > feel > a bit hurt by your comments. I believe there's better way of communicating > that this. > > > > Romain > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Savonet-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/savonet-users >
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