[TriLUG] icecast and xmms

[Chris MacLeod]

I'm the only one using it (so it's a single stream)

Here is a snapshot of top (so you guys can see the utilization)


Chris MacLeod wrote: 10:14am up 129 days, 18:18, 2 users, load average: 
0.06, 0.04, 0.01
46 processes: 45 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.4% system, 0.0% nice, 99.1% idle
Mem: 62388K av, 61396K used, 992K free, 592K shrd, 1248K buff
Swap: 200772K av, 3312K used, 197460K free 37112K cached

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
21751 root 18 0 1032 1032 832 R 0.8 1.6 0:00 top
21698 root 10 0 1780 1760 1408 S 0.1 2.8 0:01 sshd
1 root 8 0 160 128 96 S 0.0 0.2 0:04 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:07 kswapd
4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreclaimd
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04 bdflush
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04 kupdated
7 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd
82 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
727 root 9 0 128 44 28 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 automount
745 daemon 9 0 104 48 48 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 atd
763 root 9 0 1712 1596 136 S 0.0 2.5 0:02 arpwatch

I just want to be able to access all my mp3's from the office mainly.
Playlists and such, so maybe agatha or apache::MP3 is the way to go

Stick

>
> So recently I setup icecast with shout running on my box at home so I 
> can have access to my 10G of mp3's from other machines (the office) etc.
> I was using xmms to connect to the stream and it worked ok for a while 
> then got really skippy broke up and got kicked a couple of times. 
> Initially I thought it was a bandwidth issue, but then I tried it over 
> the lan I had the same problem.
> It would seem that xmms sucks at streaming so I tried xaudio as well 
> as winamp they all had the same problem.
>
> Has anyone played with icecast and gotten some good performance out of 
> it? I'm not running it on a really beefy box (p200 64meg ram) but 
> usage looks really low on the box and it's only one client so I don't 
> think it's server performance.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Stick
>
>
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