[aklug] Re: Icecast server

I was using Joomla with a podcast plugin that allows people to subscribe
to the my pastor's sermon (GodCast) and a seperate feed if they wanted
to listen to the whole service. A feature of the podcast plugin was a
flash player that allowed streaming on demand, no seperate streaming
server needed. The files were stored and downloaded as mp3s, I'm not
sure if they were streamed in flash as mp3s or if flash has it's own
codec for audio. I'm in the process of getting things set back up again
as our previous hosting company "lost" our dbase and most of our files.
It worked really well for members that could not attend regularly due to
working on the slope and in the fishing industry. They were all able to
listen at their leisure.

-Sean

Kevin Miller wrote:
> I'm building a web server and will have some large audio files on it
> (sermons from church). Not sure of the size, but I expect they're each
> in the area of 20-45 mb. We could just put them up for download, but
> when we were on a host some time back you had the option of pulling down
> an mp3 or listening to an stream. I think it was real-audio.
> Unfortunately, that hosting service is no longer around. (No,it wasn't
> McColo! <g>)
>
> I'd like to do the same on the new server, but use open source tools.
> Icecast sounds like it may suit the bill. These won't be "live" feeds.
>
> What pieces do I need to accomplish this?
>
> I'd like to stream ogg-vorbis, but don't want to limit my audience. Can
> most mainstream (i.e. Windows) play that w/o issue or would users have
> to download winamp or something? It's easy enough to create the files
> in .mp3 format, but I'm not sure of the legal issues there. They would
> likely be created on a Windows or Mac so maybe the license is a
> non-issue. I know this is the wrong place to ask for legal advice, but
> maybe some of you have looked into it before and can offer some general
> guidence.
>
> Thanks...
>
> ...Kevin
>

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Received on Fri Jan 9 17:49:10 2009