Does there exist an apparatus that I could connect the audio output of my FM tuner, assign an IP address, and distribute throughout my PC network? ...Jim Thompson
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"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
Something like this?
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This may help also
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With so many stations available on internet radio, either directly from the station's website or through iTunes, why would you want to do it any other way?
I suspected as much. All I can find seem to require storing your source material on a hard drive :-( ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
You're looking for a standalone box rather than something that uses a PC with sound card, right?
If so, I haven't seen anything really suitable -- I'm looking for the same thing. I've even toyed with the idea of building one, but realistically you'd want it to be compatible with, e.g., your Roku Soundbridge there (and I'd want it to work with my Logitech Squeezebox stuff), and to do that you need an MP3 (or similar) *encoder* in the box. Now, that's easy to do with a PC (there's a very good, freely-available MP3 encoder called LAME available), but with a little standalone "network accessible brick," typically their processors (often low-end ARMs) don't have the floating-point unit that LAME wants... and -- interestingly enough -- there are very few freely-available fixed-point MP3 encoders out there, and the ones that do exist (e.g., one called SHINE) are rather poor compared to LAME.
There are commercially-available fixed-point MP3 encoders, but apparently no one seems to think the market is big enough to support this more traditional approach.
At least that's my analysis of why standalone "feed in analog audio here, spit out MP3/Shoutcast-encoded audio over Ethernet there" boxes don't seem to exist.
I'd love to find out I'm wrong about that, though.
Someone will likely point out that you can pick up netbooks for all of ~$200 or so at times, and that would work just ducky to run LAME and perform this function -- although you still have to install and configure all the software yourself.
Same here. You'd think that would be a desirable product. But I guess markets are driven by the iPhone crowd... they can't even walk down the street without being glued to the Web :-(
...Jim Thompson
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VLC (Video Lan Client) should be able to do this. Works in linux or Windows. Assigning an ip adress will be up to your router, unless you're running linux and can edit the necessary .rc file.
Thanks, Martin, I'll give that a try. ...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
I don't know of one 'put together' but you should be able to do it with winamp and either their shoutcast server or icecast.
For Winamp you need the shoutcast-dsp-2-1-1-windows.exe plugin, which takes the audio and streams it to the shoutcast-dnas-1-9-8-windows.exe server.
Files here:
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Forget the stuff about needing IIS. That's BS.
I'm streaming audio with shoutcast to my other PCs as I type.
You'll probably want a standalone box or at least not associate Winamp with audio files because if you tried to play any locally though it they would override the playlist and go into the broadcast stream.
I did test sound card input with a mic and that went out too but as a side note for testing: I don't know if my setup is 'odd' or normal but by the time everything gets finished with doing whatever it does there's an up to 60 second delay before audio makes it out the speakers on the other end so don't give up too fast (server buffering I presume).
Oh, and use 'legacy' server for the winamp DSP connection if using the shoutcast-dnas-1-9-8 server with a GUI interface (the V2 server is command line only).
Hello, and I've appliances here at work that are capable of streaming MPEG-4 video and audio. They are made by VBrick Systems but they cost several thousand dollars each. You input an NTSC or PAL video source and/or the accompanying analog stereo/mono audio and the stream is output to your network. You can set parameters like bit rates for video and audio, frame rate, picture resolution, etc. You would then play the stream using a client player such as QuickTime or VLC (Out-of-the-box Windows Media player doesn't support MPEG-4). As a cheaper alternative you could use a computer with an audio grabber and freeware like VLC (configured as a server rather than client) to accomplish the same thing. If it's an Apple computer you could use the Darwin streaming server software. Sincerely,
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Hello, and all I know for sure is that they use a VxWorks embedded RTOS. The model 4300 encoder boxes I have are a few years old and I don't know what OS/processors VBrick Systems is using in their current product line. Sincerely,
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4555 Overlook Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20375-5337
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Jim might be looking for a smaller, single function device.
I might have seen something like this in a Circuit Cellar article. When I get a chance, I'll check through my pile of back issues.
his isn't a device that the RIAA would like. Although I don't think they'd have an issue with its use on a home network, it could be re-purposed for Internet rebroadcast of their precious content.
Is the Orb stuff configured in some way to prevent packets from routing into the real world?
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