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Centova Cast v3 => General discussion => Topic started by: hernyboy on January 13, 2014, 05:13:04 pm

Title: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: hernyboy on January 13, 2014, 05:13:04 pm

I'm running a stream with icecast (ices-cc) and I want to relay that stream into 2 more streams. A 128 AAC+ stream and a 96AAC+. I already have shoutcast v2 installed and sc_trans2
How should I do this without editing my ices file?
Thanks
h

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: Alexiu on January 14, 2014, 03:35:47 am

The best  possible solution (and most likely the only solution which would not require you to also use some 3rd party transcoding software) would be to make Shoutcast v2 + sc_trans2 your "main" stream. Create 3 mount points for it and then configure the autoDJs for each mount point as follows:

mount point1: 128kbps AAC+
mount point2: 96kpbs AAC+
mount point3: the same bitrate and audio encoding type you used to have on your Icecast stream

Then have your Icecast server relay Shoutcat's mount point 3


This does come with a big problem at the moment: most likely you wanted to use MP3 encoding for your 3rd mount point, but sc_trans2 requires an MP3 license to allow you to encode in MP3 format and there is no way to currently purchase an MP3 license from Nullsoft

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: hernyboy on January 14, 2014, 06:58:31 pm

Thanks for your help Alexiu
I already bought an mp3 license some time ago, so I will give it a try
Thanks
h

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: hernyboy on January 14, 2014, 07:27:19 pm

You are the best !
It works perfect !!

thank you AlexiuB

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: hernyboy on February 11, 2014, 09:49:08 am

Now I have one problem.
Each time a have a live show, the rest of the mountpoints don't pick up the stream.
How can I make it work??
please help
thank you
h

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: Alexiu on February 16, 2014, 05:58:11 am

you should configure your broadcasting software to connect to all the mount points (you can also configure the bitrate individually for each mount point)

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: hernyboy on February 18, 2014, 06:39:26 am

That is a lot of bandwith to upload.
Is there a way to send it to one server and the rest of the mountpoints just relay that main stream?
Thank you again for your help Alexiu

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: Alexiu on February 23, 2014, 05:36:30 am

well..sure. it would be possible to broadcast to one mount point and have the others relay it. but in this scenario the bitrate will be the same on all mount points

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: hernyboy on April 09, 2014, 06:29:48 am

Is there a way to make centova transcode the streams into different bitrates?
Basically I want  to have 1 main stream at 192kbps Shoutcast v2 + sc_trans2
This stream should be able to have different outputs
mount point1: 192kbps mp3
mount point1: 128kbps AAC+
mount point2: 24kpbs AAC+

In case I have a live show, I want my dj to stream only the 192kbps mp3 stream and make centova do all the transcoding. Is this possible?
thanks again

Title: Re: Relay an Icecast stream to a Shoutcast server
Post by: Alexiu on April 26, 2014, 05:35:02 am

as long as the DJ connects trough sc_trans2 and directly to Shoutcast, this is all possible