gst-plugin-shout2 - how to configure?

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astaroth_pod · Post by **astaroth_pod** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:45 pm

I want gstreamer to send audio to my icecast server, using rhythmbox. Using the gst shout2 plugin, this should be no problem - however, I just can't find any description on how to configure the shout2send gst sink? I mean, there must be a configuration setting for it somewhere, so it knows where to send any data... I'm testing it with this command:

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gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=Midnight_Mover.mp3 ! mad ! shout2send

and get this error:

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WARNING: erroneous pipeline: could not link mad0 to shout2send0
         Trying to run anyway.
RUNNING pipeline ...

but nothing happens, icecasts access log is empty (of course, since I've had nowhere to configure where it should send the stream).
Does anyone know anything on how I can configure shout2send?

Using the command

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gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=Midnight_Mover.mp3 ! mad ! alsasink

it's send to audio out (alsa) since alsa knows where to send its stuff, and this works fine - but it doesn't help me streaming!

astaroth_pod · Post by **astaroth_pod** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:26 pm

The error went away when I used ! spider instead of ! mad, but i still cannot configure the shout2send... It does use some default settings thought, so if I just use the password "hackme" for streaming it's working. Stupid, but working...

Rhythmbox has the same problem that ! mad has unfortunately =(

ikke · Post by **ikke** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:57 pm

try mad ! audioconvert ! shout2sink (or whatever its called)

I cant promiss this works though, I'm no shoutcast user

astaroth_pod · Post by **astaroth_pod** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:36 am

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WARNING: erroneous pipeline: could not link audioconvert0 to shout2send0
         Trying to run anyway.

Seems shout2send isn't working all too well - I've seen this problem with some other modules before, which mad don't work with while spider do.

JazzSax006 · Post by **JazzSax006** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:20 am

try something like the following:

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gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location=somesong.ogg ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! rawvorbisenc max-bitrate=64000 ! oggmux ! shout2send ip=icecastip.some.com password=somepass mount=/somemount.ogg

The max-bitrate option is just to downsample the ogg stream to 64kbs. You need to tweak this around if you're going to use gconf and its audio sink, but unfortunately I've found that the icecast mount point is removed each time a track is changed and so it cuts off clients to the icecast stream after each track. So at the moment this isn't very helpfull unless you are wanting to stream one large audio file.