SecondLife and Ice Cast

Good evening, I set up a Icecast server on one of my spare linux boxes and using foobar2000 + OddcastV3 I have managed to stream data to accross the internet and it's works reasonably well.

When I connect from SL it fails. Looking in the log file I see a IceCast log I see SOURCE /stream.ogg and when I connect I see a GET /stream.ogg from Secondlife

(/Stream.ogg is a mount point in IceCast)
I examined the m3u file and it said http://wendyslostboys.ath.cx:8000/stream.ogg

Any ideas
I have tried a FQDN and an URL in my land page along with :8000 :8000/ :8000/stream and :8000/stream.ogg. When I click on the music play icon it's returns to the stop icon in a second

I spent the evening looking at the other threads and release notes in Second life and in the iceCast.org furum but there are only general answers like well you can always rent space off my server. Nothing hard fact about nailing it up.

So I know my server is sending
I know I can receive through my FW but S/L does not seam to connect.


My IceCast servers is reporting:
Mount Point : (/stream.ogg)

audio_bitrate 499821
audio_channels 2
audio_info ice-samplerate=44100;ice-bitrate=Quality 32;ice-channels=2
audio_samplerate 44100
bitrate Quality 32
genre Rock/Blues
ice-bitrate 499
ice-channels 2
ice-samplerate 44100
listener_peak 1
listeners 1
listenurl http://wendyslostboys.ath.cx:8000/stream.ogg
max_listeners 1
public 1
server_description Bobs
server_name Bob
server_type application/ogg
server_url http://Wendyslostboys.ath.cx
slow_listeners 0
source_ip 10.168.0.2
stream_start Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:02:28 +0000
subtype Vorbis
title heavy Fuel
total_bytes_read 1348393
total_bytes_sent 1080341

Any ideas.

Sorry for duplication but I have spent most of the evening looking on various sites

Regards

Try removing the stream.ogg - SL prefers it's streaming links to end in the port number for Shout/IceCast eg: http://wendyslostboys.ath.cx:8000 - Just re-read, and sounds like you've tried it.

Please consider streaming mp3 instead of ogg, as, last I knew there was a crash bug for (at least) Mac (and I believe) Linux clients when ogg streams are used on a parcel. It also might be the possible cause of the problem, since they might have "fixed" the crash bug by disabling ogg streams at all (pure speculation).

Yes I have Nothing seams to work. I have posted the same message on the IceCast forum. See if that brings anything to light.

I thought the benifit of ogg was lower bandwith. IceCast 2 only supports Streaming ogg media. I would have to completly reinstall. Oh well....


Thanks

Check the ogg sample rate. it should be 44.1khz, I don't think second life likes anything below that.

I've been using icecast2 to stream for my sim for months. I can attest to the fact that having a mountpoint (/stream.ogg) in the url is fine, although I never did actually manage to get ogg streaming working in SL. I think maybe you'll just have to stick with an MP3 stream.

You must be using IceCast Pre version 2 as this version only does Ogg

Bugger!
Another change

I added a Stream translator from ogg to mp3 and as before the play guttom returns to stop straight away

Mount Point : (/stream.mp3)
audio_info ice-samplerate=44100;ice-bitrate=32;ice-channels=2
bitrate 32
genre Rock
ice-bitrate 32
ice-channels 2
ice-samplerate 44100
listener_peak 0
listeners 0
listenurl http://wendyslostboys.ath.cx:8000/stream.mp3
max_listeners 2
public 1
server_description This is my server description
server_name This is my server name
server_type audio/mpeg
server_url http://www.oddsock.org
slow_listeners 0
source_ip 10.168.0.2
stream_start Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:14:15 +0000
title - Cream JLH, Drinking gambling man, Rec (1
total_bytes_read 20689
total_bytes_sent 0

Turn it on and see if anyone else can hear it. Back awhile ago, I used Icecast2 to stream ogg into secondlife, and it worked quite fine.

If that URL you gave is pointing to your home computer, and you have NAT setup (i.e. you have a router), you might not be able to listen to your own stream using that URL, but other people will. Try using http://localhost:8000 instead, or even http://192.168.0.1:8000 (or whatever your local network IP address is).

If you are using windows XP or vista, be sure that you have specified an exception for port 8000 in your firewall.

It's Linux.
I set up a stream translator which re-encodes ogg to mp3 to see if it was a streaming problem and have two mountpoints /stream.mp3 and /stream.ogg

I can connecty from other machines and listen to both streams but Second life is not hitting my server. I have also tried diferent ports and put the server in a DMZ but never see anything hitting the server from secondlife.

Normaly when I connect from another client I see GET /stream.ogg in the IceCast log file but from second life nothing.
I'll put a socket listener on the port and see what come in.


Regards

I have put a perl listener on a range of ports and nothing comming you of Second life

Have filed bug report

Incorrect. IceCast2 streams any format you send to it, OGG, MP3, FLAC, etc.

What you're thinking of is ICES 2.0. ICES 2.0 only will send OGG to IceCast2. ICES 0.3 will send MP3 to IceCast2.

IceCast2 is only the server. it doesnt' care what you send to it. It's the client sending to it that matters. ICES 2.0 (and 0.3) is the client.

At My club, I use SAM to stream to My IceCast2 server in MP3 format. I've used OddCast to stream to it in OGG before, but that causes issues.

yes sorry it was the ices prog.
I have a stream converter and now stream.mp3 and stream.ogg and still nothing.
SL connects to other streaming services from my island so why not mine? I put the stream on port 80 still nothing hitting me.

I don't think its the streaming service at all now as I can connect from anyware in the world to my icecast server. So that leaves it to SL.

I have tried with FQDN and IP but nothing comes to my IP address. I am starting to think this is a reverse DNS lookup problem as there is only an A record and not a PTR.

Oh well lets see if Bug report comes up with anything

Regards