Matthew Patterson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > In my quest to further expand my whole home audio solution I was > thinking about the options for piping the music to non pulse supporting > devices like my internet tablet and cell phones. Right now I stream to > these devices simply by giving them playlists that target my webserver, > but I have tried in the past icecast2. This has the added benefit of > normalizing the stream bitrate for the lower bandwidth of the cell phone > (and is essential now that I am moving to flac as my primary format). > > Has anybody worked on a solution for pulseaudio -> shoutcast/icecast? I > realize icecast only takes mp3/ogg streams, so the raw pcm data would > have to be piped through an encoder on the fly, then shipped to the > icecast server. I also realize synchronization would be lost, but > wouldn't this be a cool addition! gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc device=alsa_output.pci_8086_27d8_alsa_playback_0.monitor ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! oggmux ! shout2send ip=example.com port=8000 password=hackme mount=stream.ogg Have fun :) (NB change the device name to suit the monitor stream of the device you want to broadcast) Col
