On Sunday 10 February 2008, Renich Bon Ciric wrote: > Hello, Fedorians! > > I saw a topic called "Radio streaming" and I couldn't help to ask > myself: "How would one set up a streaming server on fedora?" > So, How would it be? OGG, AFAIK, can't be streamed, can it? What other > formats are there? Any particular server/app in mind? There are a number of possibilities. If you want/need something commercial and supported, Helix Server (aka Real Server) is available, but expensive. I consult for a radio station that has had a Real Server online for nearly eleven years now using Real Server on Linux (originally Red Hat Linux 4.2, now CentOS 4). It has been a very long time since I've looked at their pricing, as this station originally licensed RealAudioServer in 1997, and has just kept the annual support and updates current ever since then, so you'll need to check out the www.realnetworks.com website for details. I see a 5 stream version of the server is no fee needed. You also need the RealProducer product to get live audio into the server. A command line and a GUI Linux producer is available, but, again, for live streaming there is a cost. Also, there's Fluendo's flumotion server. This one is dual licensed: the basic version is available under the GPL, and is in fact installable with a simple 'yum install flumotion' since it is in the Fedora repository. This will give you the ability to stream OGG and other unencumbered formats. If you want to legally stream MPEG's you'll need Fluendo's Advanced version which is commercial but gives you a fully legal way to stream MP3's and similar. You'll need to contact Fluendo for details; their website is pretty short on this information. There is also a hosted version at flumotion.com. Icecast is also a possibility, but you'll want a legal MP3 encoder for deployment to a real radio station if you want to use something other than OGG. I do think it can stream OGG, though, but I haven't used icecast in production to do so as yet. Also there are performance royalties and such to worry about, but that piece is off topic for this list. You could ask that question on Broadcast.Net's Broadcast mailing list (you'll find a lot of very helpful folks there...I've been a member of that list for ten years or more). Hope that helps! -- Lamar Owen www.pari.edu
