From: Alexander D. F. <ale...@dm...> - 2013-08-20 15:59:28
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Hi Jean-François > I would like to know if it could be possible to use 2 differents icecast server as output without having a double encoding process ? > My goal is to push the same stream (same codec, bitrate, …) to 2 icecast servers for redundancy. But as we have 10,000 radio stations using LS, it could cost a lot of cpu time if encoded twice. Question with those issues is always WHAT you are up to put on redundancy -- LS Instances? Icecast Servers? In our experience, Encoding/Radioautomation cause much more CPU time hence are more likely to hang than the Icecast Server. I figure you are aggreating many webradiostations. Are they pushing to your icecast servers or are you relaying them thru LS http input? If the latter, I think best way to secure high availability would be relaying from two LS instances and pushing to one icecast server each (and then working with DNS fallback scenario or whatever). Cheers Alex |