Icecast Webm streaming support

[Jyzee]

Is there a way to stream Webm to Icecast 2.4+ ? If not supported, could it be added ? Thanks.

[unfa]

That could be amazing!

2014-07-30 14:43 GMT+02:00 Jyzee notifications@github.com:

Is there a way to stream to Icecast 2.4+ (webm supported) ? I don't know if SSR supports ir or how to do it. If not supported, could it be added ? Thanks.

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Tobiasz unfa

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[MaartenBaert]

For future reference:

SSR currently has no direct icecast/shoutcast support and neither does ffmpeg, but you can pipe ogg streams through the 'oggfwd' tool and that seems to work.

• Set container to 'ogg' in SSR. Set video codec to theora and audio codec to vorbis.
• Set the destination to /tmp/ssrpipe (without extension)
• Before you start recording, run 'mkfifo /tmp/ssrpipe' in a terminal, and then run 'oggfwd /streamname.ogg < /tmp/ssrpipe'. This will tell oggfwd to read from a named pipe.
• Start recording in SSR. Oggfwd should print 'connected to server' and your stream should be working.
• Note that SSR will delete /tmp/ssrpipe if you try to cancel the recording (which means you have to recreate it every time with 'mkfifo'), so avoid that.

I don't know how webm support is supposed to work. Oggfwd doesn't seem to support it, but maybe someone will write a 'webmfwd' tool at some point.

Maybe I will add direct icecast/shoutcast support to SSR in the future.

[unfa]

Wow! This is the amazing power of GNU/Linux!

[Jyzee]

I forked OggFWD and made IceFWD. It supports Ogg and WebM streams. It works just like OggFWD, don't forget to add -f webm and set SSR container to WebM.

[Gigadoc2]

Just wanted to point out, it seems like ffmpeg does have icecast support now: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-protocols.html#Icecast