Icecast

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Free software to do audio/video streaming


http://icecast.org

Icecast install

sudo aptitude install icecast2

The installed will ask you to set

  • the domain name: keep it localhost
  • access passwords

config

/etc/icecast2

Icecast clients

Extensive list

Ezstream

A command line source client for Icecast media streaming servers.

In its basic mode of operation, it streams media files or data from standard input without reencoding and thus requires only very little CPU resources. It can also use various external decoders and encoders to reencode from one format to another,

DarkIce

DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server. DarkIce can record from:

  • OSS audio devices
  • ALSA audio devices
  • Solaris audio interface
  • Jack audio sources
  • uLaw audio input through a serial interface
  • CoreAudio (branch darkice-macosx)

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