Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 11:00:12 +0800 From: "aLan Tait" <aLan@fil.net> To: Jim Whitelaw <jim@pdsys.com> Cc: "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Relay Media streaming server Message-ID: <3845E0BC.83122120@fil.net> References: <19991202024359875.AAA212@showcase.pdsys.com@dooley>
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You guys are the best! aLan Jim Whitelaw wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 02 Dec 1999 07:57:31 +0800, aLan Tait wrote: > > >What I was thinking was if I could put out only one stream > >to a friendly ISP in the USA (where bandwidth is very cheap) > >maybe it could be relayed there and I could give a little > >bit of "home" to a number of overseas workers just trying to > >make a living for their families back home. > > Check out live365.com. They offer a free service that will do just what you > want. They will relay a live stream for you for up to 100 client connections > using shoutcast (streaming mp3). They will also give you 365MB of space on a > server to store .mp3 files for broadcast by their servers. (Their main > servers are Solaris, but I thought I read somewhere that they also use > FreeBSD on some systems). > > You can use the shoutcast server or icecast server (open source shoutcast > compatible server) on FreeBSD. Or you can use a prog that comes with the > icecast package called shout to broadcast files on disk instead of requiring > WinAMP or another mp3 player to stream to the shoutcast/icecast server. I've > used both the shoutcast and icecast servers as well as shout on FreeBSD 3.2 > and 3.3 with good success. > > Shoutcast streams can be played by WinAmp, Sonique, RealPlayerG2 and Windows > Media Player on Windows, xmms on *nix, and Audion and others on Macintosh. > They generally sound much better than RealAudio streams. All the software you > need to start broadcasting from either pre-recorded or live audio sources is > available for free. > > References: > > http://www.shoutcast.com/ > http://www.live365.com/ > http://www.icecast.org/ > http://www.xmms.org/ > http://www.winamp.com/ > > ========================================================================= > Jim Whitelaw tel: +1.780.975.1534 > jim-at-pdsys-dot-com fax: +1.780.484.9239 > Pathways Data Systems Inc. http://www.pdsys.com/ > ========================================================================= > "It is best to assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities > that will send packets designed to have the worst possible effect." > - F.Baker, RFC1812 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. > > iQA/AwUBOEXcuSo2mWE/JSfJEQKnkACfYmVuDWx0xheHTxuL03MoRckT32AAnj6I > rYuEOy7HehnxxJqPCkFrpCmA > =qKGq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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