[cma-l] Streaming Advice needed

[London Chinese Radio]

Hi Gary,

I have one or two ideas which could be useful to you, but I am not 100%
sure on the technical side, so best to get a second opinion here (I am sure
there are plenty on the list who can verify/refute what I have to say!)

1. Streaming vs multicast:  I am told that multicasting is a way of getting
round the problems of bandwidth to your limited internet connection. I
don't know exactly how to go about it though.

2. If you are willing to give it a go, (I think it's a really good thing)
Bit Torrent DNA offers a really effective way of distributing radio
programmes, (although as far as I know it's more for pre-recorded stuff)
and the more people that participate, the better the download speed. I
heard that the iPlayer works on similar technology (?) The downside is that
BitTorrent has a bad reputation because so many illegal files are shared
using it. The plus side, if you use it, is it is extremely economical, and
you get stats on downloads, etc etc etc.

I'm really interested in the potential of the latter, it offers so much,
potentially, for smaller stations. Could

Best,

Peter Vautier

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Gary Jackson
<gary.jackson1 at btinternet.com>wrote:

>  On 28/10/2011 15:27, Martin Steers wrote:
>
> what system are you running it on?
>
>  and if you dont mind me knowing.. whats your ip / server address?
>
> I'm using windows xp. My IP address is 86.148.107.33, mountpoint is /live,
> port 8000 so the listener url I've been using is
>
> http://86.148.107.33:8000/live.m3u
>
> Thanks
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> Gary
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>  Martin
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Gary Jackson <
> gary.jackson1 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> This is actually a personal question as I can't obtain answers anywhere
> else, but I would be grateful for any advice, and my station does use
> canstream ;-) .
>
> I'm testing to see whether I can host my own stream at home. I know
> there are licences to be bought but I'm not there yet!
>
> SAM Broadcaster's encoder is streaming to the icecast2 server.
>
> Icecast says it's runnng, and even gives the listener url in it's mount
> screen, but connecting to the url constantly times out. It's my public
> url not localhost.
>
> http://canyouseeme.org/ says my port is open and it can see my service.
>
> Puzzled...
>
> Gary
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