[webcast-l] Setup help

[Ben Edwards (lists)]

We are at a smiler stage to you although we have streamed a few live
events.  Firstly you do not need to run icecast if you are upstreaming
to toe CMS.   By advice is to join the CMA if you have not already and
use there icecast server.  This will massively reduce the technical
expertise and give you a reasonable amount of bandwidth.

As for your infrastructure I would recommend using one PC for live
encoding (a 600 Mhz should do it, the type companies throw out).  If you
want to do playlists you can them use another very low spec PC.  you may
also want to invest in a cheap 5 channel mixer (£15 from marlins).  The
reason for this is that otherwise going from live to playlists will
require interrupting the stream.   You simply fade in/out.  We have
found darkice is very solid and simple to use.

Regards,
Ben  

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 09:19 +0000, gARetH baBB wrote:
> A bunch of us in Hebden Bridge are going to be playing with streaming 
> audio (AKA a "radio station") and I just wanted a bit of advice.
> 
> We can do all the low level technical stuff (icecast etc. etc.), but 
> would like some advice on the practial scheduling database side of things.
> 
> We want something simple, so I've intially had a look at Lowlive - it's 
> all Perl and looks like it can be hacked about to add the bits and pieces 
> we need.
> 
> But, has anyone else got any sort of suggestions for other schedulers we 
> could look at which are based around individual programme scheduling 
> rather than playing a load of mp3 or regulary timed "events" ?
>  
> Maybe something which autogenerates a calender based on the scheduling.
> 
> It has to be web based, as there will be multiple people with access to 
> this thing remotely.
> 
> Sort of the same line, but what about archive managers - we'd like 
> something which just takes the last programme broadcast, puts it to the 
> top of the list on a webpage with a "listen again" button and carries on 
> infinitum.
> 
> What do people use for primary website management ? Standard CMS with a 
> forum type plugin and plugins for the archive etc. ?
> 
> Any advice greatly received.
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