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Dylan Rickenbacker
Animator
Join date: 11 Oct 2006
Posts: 365
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12-14-2006 00:39
Say I want to stream music to my land from my own webspace. If I do that, will there be a steady stream all the time or will the data only be streamed as long as there's an avatar on the land with music control set on play?
I am trying to figure out how much traffic this will generate for my web site.
Thanks ... Dylan
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Kitty Barnett
Registered User
Join date: 10 May 2006
Posts: 5,586
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12-14-2006 05:25
You can't just stream music from a regular webhost, unless they happen to offer shoutcast or something else along with the package. Search the forum for some helpful recent threads on it.
How much traffic it would generate depends on the bitrate of the stream, a 128kbit stream will use 16kb/s per listener per second.
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Dylan Rickenbacker
Animator
Join date: 11 Oct 2006
Posts: 365
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12-15-2006 00:28
From: Kitty Barnett You can't just stream music from a regular webhost, unless they happen to offer shoutcast or something else along with the package. Well, yes, I can. All I need is a script that toggles through the mp3 files on my web space. |
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Shep Korvin
The Lucky Chair Guy
Join date: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 305
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12-15-2006 06:15
It will only be streamed when there's somebody there to listen to it.
Media is streamed directly to the client, and doesn't go via the SL servers... so if you get 10 people on your land, all 10 of them will stream their own copy of the mp3 direct from your web server. If you have zero people on your land, nothing will be streamed.
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