Re: Inexpensive/Easy Way to Stream Live Performances

[Todd Pafford <calenlas@gmail.com>]

Rainer,

Good point on the bandwidth thing.  I hadn't even thought of that. 
Sounds like the best thing to do would be to set up a relay so the
laptop is effectively only serving one client over WiFi.

I sent Kris a long email off list describing additional headaches that
can be expected if he's got to deal with firewalls and such.  Using a
relay, though, may simplify issues a little.


Todd

On 8/1/05, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de> wrote:
> Kris,
> 
> the problem here ist that somebody needs to have the upstream capacity
> to stream your stream bandwidth times the number of listeners, and there
> are chances that your wi-fi internet access will not provide that. So in
> most cases, the deal is to either connect to a server with a
> high-bandwidth connection or at least to use an additional server (with
> this kind of connection) as a relay.
> 
> I had tried that with several of my computers at home and in the office
> - for generating the stream, I used an input plugin for winamp (called
> line_in.dll) that provides your computers' line input as a source in
> Winamp and then used the Oddcast DSP plugin to generate an Ogg/Vorbis
> stream. This stream was then distributed with a software that was called
> ezstream.
> 
> All of these programs came for free, at least for the short time I was
> experimenting with them.
> 
> I don't know of any a-la-torrent solutions where the clients also serve
> streams themselves.
> 
>         Rainer
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Krispen Hartung [mailto:info@krispenhartung.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 1. August 2005 07:23
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Betreff: RE: Inexpensive/Easy Way to Stream Live Performances
> 
> 
> Yes, that sounds like what I want to do alright...streaming MP3 directly
> from my laptop.  I am using XP. The trick is that I'd like to do it from
> my host and not an external  web server. It would be sort of like those
> internet services who provide peer-to-peer file sharing, rather than
> relying on an intermediate server.  I suppose I could setup my laptop as
> a webserver, if I knew how to do that. Whatever the case, it needs to
> work wherever I go and there is WI-FI access.
> 
> Kris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Pafford [mailto:calenlas@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 11:18 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Inexpensive/Easy Way to Stream Live Performances
> 
> 
> Kris,
> 
> This sounds like a great idea and I wish you the best of luck.  It
> certainly seems like it should be do-able.  The solution I'm imagining
> would involve running your audio into the laptop, doing a continuous
> conversion into mp3, then streaming that out.  Certainly doesn't sound
> too difficult, or too taxing on the hardware.  Unfortunately, I don't
> know of any applications off the top of my head.
> 
> What OS are you using?  I think I could cook something up on my linux
> box using available tools and a simple script, but that probably
> wouldn't help you if you're on Windows.  OSX might have similar
> capabilities, but I don't know.
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/31/05, Hartung, Kris <kris.hartung@hp.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a cost effective way to share real-time
> > performances over the web?  I tried the voice feature of my Yahoo Chat
> 
> > room , and it is atrocious.  I can hear the music, but it is very
> > choppy and at a low bit/frequency rate. You would think that with a
> > fast internet and a laptop that there is some effective way to do this
> 
> > without costing a fortune or owning a remote server.  What about Real
> > Audio?  Any free resources to pull this off?
> 
> 
> 
> 


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~~calenlas~~