Re: [Savonet-users] Does liquidsoap mess with the bitrate of the streamed stuff?

[nick k. <ko...@gm...>]

dav...@gm... wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> I am on holidays and don't have easy access to my mail, but since your
> question is still un-answered, I'll give it a quick reply.
>
> Liquidsoap always decodes everything to raw PCM, and each output
> encodes the raw stream according to its parameters. For example if you
> use output.icecast.mp3, the default bitrate is 128 (you can see that
> in the API reference or using liquidsoap -h output.icecast.mp3). For
> output.icecast.vorbis, the bitrate depends on the quality that you
> pick.
>
> So yes, liquidsoap "messes with the bitrate". The parameters of the
> output stream is totally independent of the input files.
>
> The stream that the client (liquidsoap) sends to icecast is never
> re-encoded before being listened.
>
> Hope that clarified things,
>
> David
>
> On 1/5/09, nick kos <ko...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> I use Internet DJ Console to stream (at 64 kb/s) to a locally installed
>> Icecast server.
>> I have rented some Icecast server which grubs the stream that my locally
>> installed server streams (also at 64kb/s - icecast server has an option
>> for this).
>> so :
>>
>> stream client (at 64kb/s) --> locally installed server (also at 64 kb/s)
>> --> remote server (at 64 kb/s) --> to the world
>>
>> Now i would like to use Liquidsoap so that i can have many sources
>> (streams - playlist - single file etc) to my locally installed server.
>>
>> I managed to make a liquidsoap script. This script uses my live
>> streaming to the locally installed icecast server and another file and
>> works as a fallback between those two "sources".
>>
>> so:
>>
>> live streaming to local server \
>>                                                     \
>>                                                     fallback
>> ----(liquidsoap)---->local server --> remote server
>>                                                     /
>>                                                    /
>>                                 another file
>>
>> what is my problem? well even though i use 64kb/s at the streaming
>> client, the "another file" is also at 64kb/s , remote server says that
>> what it takes from the local server is at 96kb/s (i made a contract for
>> 64kb/s and as a result it stops...). Does liquidsoap mess with the
>> bitrate? Is there any way to set it to 64kb/s?
>> Thanks in andvance
>>
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>   
well thank you for your answer. in the meantime i have been talking with 
"smimou" and
"toots" at the irc channel of yours and they helped me a lot. actually 
there they found some small bug which had to do with the bitrate and 
they corrected it, it will be released with the next version. i'm 
looking forward for this next version.
once again thanx