Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:14:08 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need an audio multicasting solution Message-ID: <20110911171408.GA62500@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <CAHieY7Tj-PyF52tRa8DMCdicqiOixLjSwT-QO67qT0PAirQyoQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110909062121.GA28440@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <CAHieY7Tj-PyF52tRa8DMCdicqiOixLjSwT-QO67qT0PAirQyoQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > > I need a solution to read sound from a soundcard (/dev/dsp) and > > multicast it into the network, for the multicast audio stream to be > > played on FreeBSD, Linux and Windows workstations. No sophisticated > > codecs needed, plain PCM would do. > > > > Can you advise something? I know that in theory there are many ways to > > implement this, but I am especially interested in personal first-hand > > experience, success stories or good white papers. Please no > > lmgtfu-type replies. Thanks very much in advance. > > > > I doubt people in this list are the lmgtfu type! > > I use Icecast on FBSD and it works great. Alejandro, correct me if I am wrong but AFAIK Icecast works with mp3 files. Can it really read audio from /dev/dsp? I don't need mp3, I would prefer to multicast simple PCM data. Even 8 bit PCM (64 Kbit/s) would do. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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