Support Ogg Vorbis/Opus (for IceCast 2)

[AzureKitsune]

Newer IceCast servers support ogg streams where the metadata is embedded in the audio directly. While that is a possible in it self, there is no way to create a Vorbis/Opus decoder for playback. More specifically, there is no way to create AudioEncodingProperties for it.

I posted a feedback item for it on the UserVoice site. It can be found here.

[AzureKitsune]

After digging a bit deeper (more time has passed since the OP and this comment says), I found that can probably create AudioEncodingProperties instances directly and set the format to "vorbis"/"opus" (both are supported).

The format property is defined here.

The only problem is, as far I know, the metadata is embedded directly into the audio data versus it being spliced in at intervals.

[AzureKitsune]

Additional resources on IceCast and Ogg streaming:

• http://sphere.sourceforge.net/flik/docs/streaming.html
• http://www.indexcom.com/streaming/player/Icecast2.html

EDIT: It is also possible that my janky http implementation will need to support persistent connections for Ogg streaming to work:

• https://www.subbu.org/blog/2004/11/persistent-connections-pipelining-and-chunking

[AzureKitsune]

FFmpeg may be something to look into for this. https://github.com/Microsoft/FFmpegInterop