Fianlly broadcasting. Now for phase 2!

[DJHardRocker]

Ok now that I'm broadcasting there's a few things I'm not sure of:

1) How do I make a little link thingy to listen in to my station? (i.e. The little colorful boxes people put at the bottom fo their posts that say what's playing and let you 'Listen In').

2) Also, I'm on a cable modem and my download speed is 690kbps and my upload is 116kbps. How high can I set the Encoder Settings on my DNAS plugin thingy? I wanna know the highest I can get without any real trouble. Thanks.

[FesterHead]

1.

Links:

DNAS link: http://yourDNASip:yourDNASport
Listen link: http://yourDNASip:yourDNASport/listen.pls

Replace yourDNASip with the ip of the DNAS (SHOUTcast server) and yourDNASport with the DNAS port (default is 8000)

Also, if your router doesn't support local loopback then machines on the same lan as the DNAS (you) need to use the lan ip of the DNAS to connect/listen.
Machines not on the same lan as the DNAS (the rest of the world) need to use the real, world-visible ip of the DNAS to connect/listen.

See RFC1918 for more information. Scroll down and look for the section titled:
3. Private Address Space

How to find your ip address (Part I).
How to find your ip address (Part II).

Finally, you can get a static name, such as foo.bar.com (not as cool as that, though ) from http://www.no-ip.com or one of the other myriad of Dynamic DNS Services.
Then, your links would be:
DNAS link: http://foo.bar.com:yourDNASport
Listen link: http://foo.bar.com:yourDNASport/listen.pls

Signature:

I no longer grab the XML statistics from a DNAS.

Instead, I query my SAM2 (Streaming Audio Manager) which keeps the station data in a MySQL database.

My home page at http://www.festerhead.com is comprised of various SQL statements and the corresponding output.

Likewise, my signature (inspiration from Jay (KXRM)) is some PHP code that queries the database and outputs an image.

code:


<?php



  // Set the header type

  header("Content-Type: image/png");



  // Require the database configuration code

  require("XXX");



  // Exercise the select statement to get what is currently playing

  $SAMdb->open("SELECT songlist.artist,

                       songlist.album,

                       songlist.title 

                FROM songlist,

                     historylist 

                WHERE historylist.songID = songlist.ID 

                ORDER BY historylist.date_played DESC 

                LIMIT 1");



  // Populate the song variable with the result

  $song = $SAMdb->row();



  // Build the artist, album, song strings

  $artistString = "Artist: ".$song['artist'];

  $albumString  = " Album: ".$song['album'];

  $songString   = "  Song: ".$song['title'];



  // Initialize the length

  $maxStringSize = 0;

 

  // Bubble the longest string length to maxStringSize

  if (strlen($artistString) > $maxStringSize)

    $maxStringSize = strlen($artistString);

  if (strlen($albumString) > $maxStringSize)

    $maxStringSize = strlen($albumString);

  if (strlen($songString) > $maxStringSize)

    $maxStringSize = strlen($songString);



  // Set a max max size 

  if ($maxStringSize > 80)

    $maxStringSize = 80;



  // Build the image length at 5 pixels per character in the longest string

  $imageWidth = 5 * $maxStringSize;



  // Create the image

  $im  = imagecreate ($imageWidth, 27);

  $bgc = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);

  $tc  = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 0);



  // Place now playing information on image

  imagestring ($im, 1, 1, 0, $artistString, $tc);

  imagestring ($im, 1, 1, 9, $albumString, $tc);

  imagestring ($im, 1, 1, 18, $songString, $tc);



  // Output the image

  ImagePNG($im);



?>

You can do the same thing.
Grab your DNAS XML statistics and place the current playing artist/album/title in place of $song['artist'], $song['album'], and $song['title'] respectively.
Of course, you'll need to remove the database code.

For reference on the PHP functions above, please see http://www.php.net

For a discussion and another alternative, please see this thread.

*********************

2.
Check out the Sticky post titled:
SHOUTcast: Important Info & Answers to FAQs. READ ME!

Scroll down a bit and look for the section titled:
1. DNAS Stuff -> Bandwidth -> DSLReports Bandwidth tester(Only be concerned with the UPLOAD bandwidth)
2. DNAS Stuff -> Bandwidth -> CasterClub's Listener Calculator
3. DNAS Stuff -> Bandwidth -> CasterClub's Bandwidth Calculator

Use 1 to find your upload.
Use 2 to determine the number of listeners you can support at your selected streaming bitrate.

Jay (KXRM) also has a Bandwidth Calculator.

[DJHardRocker]

Ick... That's gonna take a while to figure out. Oh well, I know enough about HTML i should be ok. But now I can do this!

http://192.168.0.75:8000/listen.pls

I dunno if that'll work...

[FesterHead]

192.168.0.75 is a lan ip and will only work for machines on your lan.

DNAS link: http://yourDNASip:yourDNASport
Listen link: http://yourDNASip:yourDNASport/listen.pls

Replace yourDNASip with the ip of the DNAS (SHOUTcast server) and yourDNASport with the DNAS port (default is 8000)

Also, if your router doesn't support local loopback then machines on the same lan as the DNAS (you) need to use the lan ip of the DNAS to connect/listen.
Machines not on the same lan as the DNAS (the rest of the world) need to use the real, world-visible ip of the DNAS to connect/listen.

See RFC1918 for more information. Scroll down and look for the section titled:
3. Private Address Space

How to find your ip address (Part I).
How to find your ip address (Part II).

Finally, you can get a static name, such as foo.bar.com (not as cool as that, though ) from http://www.no-ip.com or one of the other myriad of Dynamic DNS Services.
Then, your links would be:
DNAS link: http://foo.bar.com:yourDNASport
Listen link: http://foo.bar.com:yourDNASport/listen.pls

[DJHardRocker]

I think i got it... check my sig.

[drzoid]

Originally posted by DJHardRocker
I think i got it... check my sig.

You cannot use HTML but only vBCode

[ URL=http://192.168.0.75:8000 ][ IMG ]http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/waradio/listenlivetitle_1.jpg[ /IMG ][ /URL ]

[drzoid]

Originally posted by DJHardRocker
2) Also, I'm on a cable modem and my download speed is 690kbps and my upload is 116kbps. How high can I set the Encoder Settings on my DNAS plugin thingy? I wanna know the highest I can get without any real trouble. Thanks.

Is your machine the Shoutcast server as well or are you using an external one? In the former case you can only have 116/[bit rate of your stream] users (minus 1 or 2 due to bandwidth reasons), in the latter case your bitrate should not exceed 112 kpbs.

[iscorp216]

im lost with this whole thing

[hackerdork]

116kbps upload? holy slow!

even encoder at 24kbps, your get 5 listeners and your upload is GONE. 5x24 =120kbps

form your system go to this web site www.whatismyip.com and it will show you the address of your internet connection, that is the address people connect to and what your shoutcast server should (automaticly) be telling shoutcast.com when it lists your stream information.

You are goind to need more bandwidth, or just run a small stream of no more that 4 listeners, and dont chat, play games or IM while streaming since that uses bandwidth too. If you are serious about streaming, get a paid host. www.radiotoolbox.com/hosts has a great list of known server hosts that support shoutcasting.

~ D

[dotme]

Originally posted by iscorp216
im lost with this whole thing

That seems pretty clear, since you dug up a thread that was three years old....