DarkIce / News: Recent posts

DarkIce will be maintained by Rafael Diniz, original author of DarkSnow, a GUI frontend for DarkIce.

DarkIce resources has been migrated to Google Code now, they can be found at http://code.google.com/p/darkice/

Dear DarkIce users,

I'm migrating the project hosting from SourceForge to my own server, as
I've had some issues with using the SourceForge instrastructre for some
time. That said, I'm very happy that I could register DarkIce at sf.net
back in 2000, and they gave me big help with their hosting.

So the new site is: http://darkice.tyrell.hu/

There's also a new mailing list: darkice-list@lists.tyrell.hu , you can
subscribe to it here: http://lists.tyrell.hu/mailman/listinfo/darkice-list... read more

o bugfix: automatic reconnect works more reliably

new release with mpeg 2 support through the twolame library, thanks to Nicholas Humfrey

added support for AAC streaming format.

o ported to OpenBSD and NetBSD, though real-time scheduling not supported,
since it is not implemented in OpenBSD / NetBSD
o added possibility to downsample from stereo to mono when encoding
to Ogg Vorbis, thanks to Deti Fliegl, <deti@fliegl.de>
o added support for Jack inputs, enabling a lot of interesting usage,
including support for MacOS X.
Thanks to Nicholas J. Humfrey <njh@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
o various improvements by Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu>
o added option to turn off automatic reconnect feature
o added IPv6 support, thanks to <jochen2@users.sourceforge.net>

o added ALSA support, thanks to Christian Forster
<forster@like.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
o added fix to enable downsampling from stereo to mono of mp3 streams
when streaming to an icecast2 server. thanks to John Deeny
<taqueso@dilapidated.org>
o removed _X and _Y symbols from aflibConverter files, which caused
a naming collision on Solaris. thanks to Robert Lunnon,
<bobl@optushome.com.au>
o bug fix: ogg vorbis recording to only a file caused a segfault.
now fixed, thanks to Enrico Ardizzoni <craken@users.sourceforge.net>

This is a bugfix release to fix bugs preventing DarkIce to work on FreeBSD

the point of this release is the have darkice work on FreeBSD.

A mailing list for darkice was created. Go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darkice-list to sign up to the list. Enjoy!

o added feature for setting the TITLE comment field for vorbis streams. thanks to Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
o bugfix: fixed minor bug in IcecCast2.cpp, which could have lead to a buffer overflow. thanks to Atsuhiko Yamanaka <ymnk@jcraft.com>
o bugfix: MultiThreadedConnector::sinkThread() was private, now public
o added fileAddDate configuration option thanks to Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
o added support for big endian OSS devices (like Linux PowerPC)

o ported to FreeBSD (removed reference to MSG_NOSIGNAL in TcpSocket.cpp)
o bug fix: maximum bitrate setting fixed for Ogg Vorbis streams
o changed internals so that now each encoding/server connection is a separate thread
o when a connection is dropped, DarkIce tries to reconnect, indefinitely

o added possibility to specify maximum bitrate for Ogg Vorbis streams
o added HTTP Basic authentication for icecast2 logins
o added mp3 streaming for icecast2
o added possibility to stream in mono even when recording in stereo,
thus enabling mono and stereo streams with the same darkice instance.
only for mp3 streams at the moment
thanks to Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>
o bug fix: resampling audio for vorbis streams bugs fixed

o bug fix: when the last server dropped connection, darkice crashed
thanks to Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
o bug fix for LameLibEncoder: the mp3 encoding buffer was deleted too
early, resulting in mp3 data corruption.
thanks to Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>

o added possibility to select constant, average and variable bit rate
encoding modes with specifying encoding quality as well.
thanks to Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
o added support for Ogg Vorbis 1.0 final, removed support for rc2
o added fault tolerance: if one of several server connection drops,
DarkIce carries on with the rest of the servers still connected

DarkIce is an IceCast, IceCast2 and ShoutCast live audio streamer. It takes audio input from a soundcard, encodes it into mp3 or Ogg Vorbis, and sends the mp3 stream to one or more IceCast and/or ShoutCast servers, the Vorbis stream to IceCast2 server.

o bugfix: a memory leak was introduced in 0.9, which is fixed thanks to Kristjan G. Bjarnason <kgb@gangverk.is> and Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
o minor documentation fix

o added possibility to simply read from the soundcard, encode, and
save the encoded data into a local file (no streaming server needed)
o added variable bitrate support for vorbis streams
o support for both rc2 and rc3 versions of vorbis libraries
o added support for resampling when encoding to vorbis
thanks to the OSALP project for the resampling class,
http://osalp.sourceforge.net/ and
Julius O. Smith, <jos@ccrma.stanford.edu> for the original code

o added possibility to disable lowpass and highpass filtering for lame
o fixed incorrect vorbis bitrate setting
o fix: DarkIce now reports public streams correctly
thanks to Tom Gray, <tomg@future-i.com>
o made up-to-date with Ogg Vorbis rc3 libs
thanks to Michael Smith, <msmith@labyrinth.net.au>
o made up-to-date with current IceCast2 cvs version
o added local stream dump possibility

enjoy.

o added support for FreeBSD
thanks to Robin P. Blanchard, <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
o added support for resampling mp3 streams
o DarkIce config file now may contain spaces and tabs as white space
o configure script enables build with or without lame / Ogg Vorbis
also possibility to specify alternate locations for these

o added support for IceCast2 server with Ogg Vorbis streaming
Ogg Vorbis support thanks to aNa|0Gue <analogue@glop.org>
o added support for SUN Solaris
o removed long command line options (as these are extensions to UNIX)
o removed configure option to specify location of lame library
o removed configure option to compile static executable

o added support for ShoutCast servers
o removed local copy of SGI STL, uses STL of the C++ compiler
o compiles with gcc3-c++
o added man page darkice.cfg.5
o bugfix: config files can have comments before the first section

These RPMs are compiled with gcc3-c++ and nasm with full optimization. They are about 35% faster than the lame-3.89beta-1 RPMs

o support for external command line encoder removed, replaced
with using lame as a shared object or statically linked library
o added darkice man page
o created RPM packages
o DarkIce no longer reports an error if the sound card recording
sample rate could not be set to the exact specified amount
(e.g. the sound card reports 44101 Hz instead of 44100 Hz)

added support for unlimited time encoding