No sound card
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Ed BoonEd Boon
    Posts: 48Member
    Hi,

    i have a server (that has no soundcard) running icecast and airtime as a scheduled playlist station. Works great. Before diving into live broadcasts, i would like to know:
    what are the limitations for airtime on a server without a soundcard?
    can i stream live on such a server using a full-fledged laptop?

    thanks

    Ed
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Paul BaranowskiPaul Baranowski
    Posts: 389Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    There arent any limitations to run Airtime without a soundcard. The
    instructions for doing that are at the end of the install guide:

    http://wiki.sourcefabric.org/x/AYIH
    Airtime 1.6 doesnt support stream rebroadcasting, though it is a highly
    requested feature and we are planning on adding it.

    - Paul



    On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Ed Boon <
    airtime-support@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > i have a server (that has no soundcard) running icecast and airtime as a
    > scheduled playlist station. Works great. Before diving into live broadcasts,
    > i would like to know:
    > what are the limitations for airtime on a server without a soundcard?
    > can i stream live on such a server using a full-fledged laptop?
    >
    > thanks
    >
    > Ed
    >

  • Vote Up0Vote Down Ed BoonEd Boon
    Posts: 48Member
    Well, there's good news indeed.

    Thanks again Paul.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Ed,

    > can i stream live on such a server using a full-fledged laptop?

    Do you mean that the laptop is running the streaming client, which
    connects to Icecast on the Airtime server?

    As Paul says, stream re-broadcasting hasn't been implemented yet, but in
    the meantime, Icecast accepts multiple connections. So you could
    configure one mountpoint for the live stream from your laptop, and
    another mountpoint for the output of Airtime.

    Then either manually switch over the mountpoints as you start/end your
    live show, or use the fallback feature in Icecast to switch mountpoints
    when the connection from your laptop drops.

    As for CPU requirements, I have run the IDJC client
    http://idjc.sourceforge.net/ on a 1GHz web tablet, so if your laptop is
    five years old or less, it should do fine.

    For an Airtime server I would recommend using a machine with RAID,
    preferably with hot-swap, because any downtime could interrupt your
    broadcast output.

    Cheers!

    Daniel
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