[Live-devel] livecaster in STL

[Jason L. Ellison]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Ross Finlayson wrote:

>>>>   I'm interested in using livecaster in a 24/7 studio to transmitter
link
>>>>for a community radio station.  Is this software project up for
such a
>>>>task?  Has anyone used this software in this manner before?
>>> Yes.
>>>>data goes over two cisco's back to back to simulate a T1.  machine
plays
>>>>audio using mplayer with live555 patch.

>>> FYI, we now recommend using VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/>
>>> instead of MPlayer.  (VLC also uses the "LIVE555 Streaming Media"
code.)
>>>
>>>>  I'm using the M-Audio Audiophile 192 for balanced input/output.
>>>> Currently the sox and lame process die mysteriously.
>>>
>>>Sorry - I can't help you with your problems with "sox" and "lame".
>>
>>   Can anyone make a suggestion of how to reliably feed realtime (as
>>opposed to pre-recorded) data to livecaster?  How are other people getting
>>the audio to livecaster?
>
>Feeding to stdin works - provided that the process(es) that are
>feeding to stdin are reliable.  That seems to be the problem that you
>are having - i.e., not a problem with "liveCaster" itself.
>

  I understand that livecaster is not the issue.  Perhaps someone who is
using livecsater knows of a more reliable method of feeding the stream to
livecaster?  My current formula of 'sox | lame | livecaster' is not
working reliably for me.  It did work well enough to show that livecaster
works very well for low latency audio over multicast.

  Is there a more approriate channel for this question to be asked?

>
> 	Ross Finlayson
> 	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
> 	<http://www.live555.com/>
>