[BC] Audio Streaming

[Rob Landry]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Tom Spencer wrote:

> Try DIY.  Icecast2 is freeware, and easy to set up.  For doing a remote,
> load the stream encoder on the laptop or whatever will be feeding, with
> the IP address and port of the destination.  Since the stream server
> (Icecast2) would be running on a local machine back at the station, the
> only issue would be the link from the remote to the station...

I haven't had very good luck having the encoder stream to Icecast across 
the public Internet. I would put both an encoder and Icecast on the 
laptop.

> http://www.icecast.org/
>
> Will handle MP3 and OGG streams right now.  For those wary of feeding in
> MP3, use the higher bitrates.  I'm running a stereo stream at 96 kbps
> with decent quality.  Or use the OGG Vorbis encoder...

Icecast will also do HE-AAC if you have a suitable encoder (darkice will 
do it if you compile it with the appropriate libraries).

Rob