couple steamcast questions and stuff
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couple steamcast questions and stuff
Ok, here goes...
First, and most importantly... Is there an SDK or documentation about creating my own YP directory to add my steamcast servers to?
Also, is steamcast not compatable with the shoutcast encoder? I have steamcast set up correctly, but my valid password is turning up invalid at the server so I can't start encoding. I've tried a few different settings and just can't get this going.
Other then that, I'm gonna keep playing with this, and hopefully making the leap for the long term
You can add Red Had Enterprise 3 to the list of supported OS.
Thanks!
First, and most importantly... Is there an SDK or documentation about creating my own YP directory to add my steamcast servers to?
Also, is steamcast not compatable with the shoutcast encoder? I have steamcast set up correctly, but my valid password is turning up invalid at the server so I can't start encoding. I've tried a few different settings and just can't get this going.
Other then that, I'm gonna keep playing with this, and hopefully making the leap for the long term
You can add Red Had Enterprise 3 to the list of supported OS.
Thanks!
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Thanks for the reply.
I gave your idea a try but no dice.
I'm not sure if thats a bug or what...
It relays like a champ though
**I actually found the answere to my first question in the winamp forums of all places...thought I'd quote it here before someone has to repeat himself
Still curious about that encoder though...
I gave your idea a try but no dice.
I'm not sure if thats a bug or what...
It relays like a champ though
**I actually found the answere to my first question in the winamp forums of all places...thought I'd quote it here before someone has to repeat himself
Building is under-way~KXRM wrote:I assume you are asking HOW to become a YP?
Simple just check out the information on Icecast2's directory structure, it's pretty much standardized, write up a small script or program to accept all of the server's entries and store them to a database.
The standard can be found at http://www.oddsock.org/icecast2yp/spec.html
Then on your website publish information on how to configure Icecast/Steamcast to list on your directory, usually this is just simply posting the url to your yp touch script.
Still curious about that encoder though...
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Well, I've read through all the available information and anything I could find in google regaring the YP, but it sure feels like I'm re-inventing the wheel.
Existing directories are all essentially using the identical backend (duh, there's only 1 API)...It seems like somewhere I should be able to just grab an open source backend...then get to work on my PHP front end to put together a decent directory.
From reading, an incorrectly configured YP can cause issues from other YP's...so a standardized backend might be good.
None the less...
I'm not sure what you mean about "mount point". I've never seen such a thing in the shoutcast DSP
Appropriately, I avoided the whole area thinking "this is for icecast, I'm not using icecast...screw it" lol!
Existing directories are all essentially using the identical backend (duh, there's only 1 API)...It seems like somewhere I should be able to just grab an open source backend...then get to work on my PHP front end to put together a decent directory.
From reading, an incorrectly configured YP can cause issues from other YP's...so a standardized backend might be good.
None the less...
I'm not sure what you mean about "mount point". I've never seen such a thing in the shoutcast DSP
Appropriately, I avoided the whole area thinking "this is for icecast, I'm not using icecast...screw it" lol!
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Thanks for your help Jay.
I found the issue with the login: a stupid space
I pulled back the space and poof she works lol!
For the YP thing, its currently the show stopper for porting all of my customers and my own servers to steamcast. Its the primary function (for me) thats lacking in shoutcast. Grabbing the XML stats is not a very good way to handle hundreds of servers for directory listings...and with all the logins doesn't seem very wise.
I've started on in CGI based on the icecast2 trunk version...unfortunately I can't get libcgi working, so I'm still needing to start from scratch.
It looks like you and the other (non shoutcast) directories have gone with PHP?
I wonder, would it be possable to see what you've done in confidence (perhaps under clause?) that I won't re-release it?
I've set up mySQL as described in the various "specs"...and the interface I have is working relatively decent. I think for my needs a PHP version would be better/faster, though I'm a bit clueless for setting up that angle. I can build php to interface pulling data from SQL, but my skills are limited with posting data to the database via PHP.
A running start would be greatly appreciated since, like I said, its like re-inventing the wheel
Thanks again for your help, and I sure hope you continue/complete this project... Even as it sits right now, this is by far the best server solution to pop out of the wood work since SC was bought by AOL
I'm quite excited about this, and look forward to being part of this projects growth!
Cheers!
I found the issue with the login: a stupid space
I pulled back the space and poof she works lol!For the YP thing, its currently the show stopper for porting all of my customers and my own servers to steamcast. Its the primary function (for me) thats lacking in shoutcast. Grabbing the XML stats is not a very good way to handle hundreds of servers for directory listings...and with all the logins doesn't seem very wise.
I've started on in CGI based on the icecast2 trunk version...unfortunately I can't get libcgi working, so I'm still needing to start from scratch.
It looks like you and the other (non shoutcast) directories have gone with PHP?
I wonder, would it be possable to see what you've done in confidence (perhaps under clause?) that I won't re-release it?
I've set up mySQL as described in the various "specs"...and the interface I have is working relatively decent. I think for my needs a PHP version would be better/faster, though I'm a bit clueless for setting up that angle. I can build php to interface pulling data from SQL, but my skills are limited with posting data to the database via PHP.
A running start would be greatly appreciated since, like I said, its like re-inventing the wheel
Thanks again for your help, and I sure hope you continue/complete this project... Even as it sits right now, this is by far the best server solution to pop out of the wood work since SC was bought by AOL
I'm quite excited about this, and look forward to being part of this projects growth!
Cheers!
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yes perhaps I can get my yp code out with the next release.
Seems to have been solid but the mysql backend is completely different then Icecast's they branched away a version ago.
Perhaps I will start a sourceforge project for it later.
Give me a few days to get everything in order. I really need to get a new steamcast out soon but stuff keeps building up here so I haven't had as much time as I would have liked.
Seems to have been solid but the mysql backend is completely different then Icecast's they branched away a version ago.
Perhaps I will start a sourceforge project for it later.
Give me a few days to get everything in order. I really need to get a new steamcast out soon but stuff keeps building up here so I haven't had as much time as I would have liked.
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No problem Jay. I definitly look forward to seeing what you've come up with for the YP. I think mine is definitly not going to work long term (it took a spill about 15 minutes ago for reasons I'm unsure of).
I wanted to mention...it looks like you can add Red Hat 9 and Fedora 3 to the list of supported servers.
I have a suse box around here somewhere...I'll try it there too. Debian does NOT work and so far neither does FreeBSD 4.9. I'm not entirely sure why...it seems debian always needs a custom setup of anything you want to run. FreeBSD is just uber geeky, maybe thats the problem there. **EDIT** NARF! Just found your BSD 4X release Works like a champ lol!
Anyways, thanks again
Looking forward to the next release, you have a fan now
Cheers!
I wanted to mention...it looks like you can add Red Hat 9 and Fedora 3 to the list of supported servers.
I have a suse box around here somewhere...I'll try it there too. Debian does NOT work and so far neither does FreeBSD 4.9. I'm not entirely sure why...it seems debian always needs a custom setup of anything you want to run. FreeBSD is just uber geeky, maybe thats the problem there. **EDIT** NARF! Just found your BSD 4X release
Works like a champ lol!Anyways, thanks again
Looking forward to the next release, you have a fan now
Cheers!
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These appear to be some bugs...
You need to kill (pid) three times to completely kill the steamcast process (*nix systems).
After a buffer under-run, the server buffer doesn't fully recover, and future connections only buffer to %80-85 (testing at 320k - you can find me in your directory )
Otherwise, I have steamcast fully integrated into a very nice multi broadcast system. Just keeping my fingers crossed for a look at your YP
Cheers!
You need to kill (pid) three times to completely kill the steamcast process (*nix systems).
After a buffer under-run, the server buffer doesn't fully recover, and future connections only buffer to %80-85 (testing at 320k - you can find me in your directory
)Otherwise, I have steamcast fully integrated into a very nice multi broadcast system. Just keeping my fingers crossed for a look at your YP
Cheers!
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I can see on the server admin screen that steamcast isn't processing the data correctly anymore.
It would typically range from 328-341k...after a buffer under-run it was frozen at 307k and stopped fluctuating.
Trying to start the stream in winamp, the buffer loaded %80 and stopped. No errors or anything, just the ICY info.
I had to give it a reboot.
It would typically range from 328-341k...after a buffer under-run it was frozen at 307k and stopped fluctuating.
Trying to start the stream in winamp, the buffer loaded %80 and stopped. No errors or anything, just the ICY info.
I had to give it a reboot.
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Here's another strange bug, though I'm not sure how to really describe it.
After streaming solid for about 28 hours at 320k in relay, I noticed I was no longer listed at shoutcast.
I noticed I was getting a lot of the following (note, the source channel is not busy, and is set to recognize this server with listener priority):
Shoutcast is also kicking back an odd error... It starts up with me no problem, and shortly afterwards (about 30 second) shoutcast comes back with the following:
I rebooted the server again...check out this error:
****I believe I figured out the issue after re-reading my post, it was a steamcast.conf configuration issue****
After streaming solid for about 28 hours at 320k in relay, I noticed I was no longer listed at shoutcast.
I noticed I was getting a lot of the following (note, the source channel is not busy, and is set to recognize this server with listener priority):
I also found a core dump of 427MB[06/07/2005@20:56:36] Source Channel #1 Busy, retrying in 10 secs...
Shoutcast is also kicking back an odd error... It starts up with me no problem, and shortly afterwards (about 30 second) shoutcast comes back with the following:
And a seg fault to core.dump (I can mail you the core dump if you want, I'm not going to try to post it here).<yp.shoutcast.com> Socket Error
I rebooted the server again...check out this error:
Here is a copy of my steamcast.conf:Relay Thread #1: host returned error (Ò¶:4ËÉh¨{?ªÓyB
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[06/07/2005@21:03:45] Relay Thread #1 lost connection, reconnecting in 10 secs....
[06/07/2005@21:03:45] Relay Thread #0 lost connection, reconnecting in 10 secs....
****I believe I figured out the issue after re-reading my post, it was a steamcast.conf configuration issue****
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<!--She's bound to do strange things and reproduce strange output...its what I do
What happened, is that I am generating the server config in my CMS. It accidentally looped through and created the config 2 times to the same file (so the server read the same config 2 times since it was all on one page).
I removed all but the config that should be there and it worked again.
To duplicate:
Open the config file. Select all, paste all to the bottom of the file. Save and close. Boot your server and watch her go nuts
What happened, is that I am generating the server config in my CMS. It accidentally looped through and created the config 2 times to the same file (so the server read the same config 2 times since it was all on one page).
I removed all but the config that should be there and it worked again.
To duplicate:
Open the config file. Select all, paste all to the bottom of the file. Save and close. Boot your server and watch her go nuts