Live Video

gazzag · Post by **gazzag** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:03 pm

Hi, im new to this steamcast thing, i have been using shoutcast for ages.

i want to stream live video through my video card, i used to use nsv live cap.

how would i do this with this software?

thanks

SHRIKEE · Post by **SHRIKEE** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:02 pm

same way you do with shoutcast. same settings and all. in nsvcap connect to the shoutcast host and point it to steamcast instead

webranger · Post by **webranger** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:22 am

Steamcast is a quite transparent replacement for shoutcast. It still is a little unstable. It's by no means unusable and has many advantages over the shoutcast server.

Genius is some of the statistical reporting, BSD support and a bunch of stuff that shoutcast forgot.

This does seem to be an active project for Jay, and I look forward to testing future revisions. If the stability problem was solved, I'd dump shoutcast in a heartbeat.

It seems like this is a pretty important project to Jay, just due to the work he's done.

gazzag · Post by **gazzag** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:51 am

SHRIKEE wrote:same way you do with shoutcast. same settings and all. in nsvcap connect to the shoutcast host and point it to steamcast instead

how do i point nsv live cap to steamcast?

do i need to install something so it comes up in the drop down menu?

bit more info would help me alot

thanks

Post by **Jay** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:59 am

no, choose the SHOUTcast source method. As stated it is transparent to Steamcast.

Just make sure you change SourceMount's name to something with an nsv extension so that icecast directories can list you.

SourceMount=/live.nsv

for example.

Also make sure that your admin user and pass are completely different from your SourceUser and SourcePass. Leave all other settings unchanged and it should work as you would expect it to work with SHOUTcast. In Nsvcap make sure the password for the SHOUTcast configuration is identical to SourcePass.

gazzag · Post by **gazzag** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:52 am

jay u got msn or any instant messanges? so i can have a chat with you

Post by **Jay** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:05 am

no, sorry, pm me here for private discussion.

gazzag · Post by **gazzag** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:19 am

well im just abit confused

coz if i have it set to shoutcast on nsv the surely its just going to stream through shoutcast

Post by **Jay** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:21 am

you misunderstand the purpose of that label. It is simply assuming the SHOUTcast Source Protocol. The label has no baring on whether it will work with other servers which utilize the same protocol.

SHRIKEE · Post by **SHRIKEE** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:26 am

indeed, just select shoutcast and point it to the steamcast. then use all the same settings for shoutcast and youre done.

*sigh*

gazzag · Post by **gazzag** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:39 am

how do i point it to steamcast? thats where im stuck

SHRIKEE · Post by **SHRIKEE** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:44 am

select shoutcast and type in the steamcast address...

if youre running the webcam on the same computer as where steamcast is use localhost other wise put in a IP address or http:// link, fill in the port and password

and make sure the headers look something like this:

Code: Select all

put password here again
icy-name:SHRIKEE TV
icy-genre:Webcam
icy-pub:1
icy-br:100
icy-url:http://www.zerocom.ath.cx
icy-reset:1

thats all

gazzag · Post by **gazzag** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:46 am

does my server have to be set up to be used with steamcast?

SHRIKEE · Post by **SHRIKEE** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:53 am

what kinda question is that steamcast IS the server...

if you got msn, add me: arnan18 -at- zerocom -dot- nl