From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 16 12:23:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.umr.edu (mrelay.cc.umr.edu [131.151.1.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8372150B9 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:23:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bbryan@umr.edu) Received: from ego (dialup-pkr-5-4.network.umr.edu [131.151.64.73]) via SMTP by mrelay.cc.umr.edu (8.9.3/R.4.20) id OAA24794; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:23:38 -0500 Message-Id: <199909161923.OAA24794@mrelay.cc.umr.edu> From: "Ben Bryan" To: "freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG" , "The Hermit Hacker" Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:25:11 -0500 Reply-To: "Ben Bryan" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Standard (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Radio Station ... Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > At the local University that I work at, they are planning on >setting up a "Internet Radio Station"...I've talked them into using >FreeBSD, and now that I've put my foot in it...what software is available >for doing this? Any? :?) Is this gonna be a "live" thing or just using prerecorded stuff already in a digital format? And are they willing to spend money on software? I work at the student run station on campus here (take care of our dozen or so computers among other things). We take our live on-air feed and run it through Real's encoder (we're using version 3 still) and then send it over to the campus RA server for distribution. We'd run our own server, but we only have a T1 to the campus network. It looks like Real is giving away a 25 stream version of G2 server so if they're not expecting a whole lot of listeners that could do. We're not planning on doing anything with mp3 streamers because they're such cpu and bandwidth hogs. But if they have no budget and want more than 25 streams (and have the bandwidth) that's the only option I know of. Ben (Incidentally, pgsql is the backend we're using for our new library database project. Gotta keep track of these 40-odd thousand cds/lps somehow...) -- Walk tall, carry a big stick, and use it. sysadmn & "loud rock" guy - KMNR bbryan@umr.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message