[Savonet-users] Advanced smooth_add

2014-02-10 Thread John Smith
Hello, There is example for smooth_add http://savonet.sourceforge.net/doc-svn/scripts/smooth_add.html where when `normal` source are faded when `special` available. But more interesting `add` will be when `normal` source fade WHEN volume level of `special` became more than specified level. But no

Re: [Savonet-users] Stream without re-encoding?

2014-02-10 Thread Daniel Jonsson
I will of course keep the source files backed up locally on a hard drive in their original codec. However, the Icecast server I'm planning to run I plan to host on a VPS found on http://lowendbox.com/. So basically ~5 USD a month and ~20 GB of storage. So my preferred setup would be to have all mu

Re: [Savonet-users] Stream without re-encoding?

2014-02-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi udo, >>> If your source file has high bitrate (such as MP3 320 or Vorbis q>8), >>> probably nothing bad will happen when transcoding it to another lossy >>> format. >> >> There's no need to take that risk, though - like you say, storage is cheap. > > not if you host participatory/open project

Re: [Savonet-users] Stream without re-encoding?

2014-02-10 Thread udo noll
Daniel James: > > > If your source file has high bitrate (such as MP3 320 or Vorbis q>8), > > probably nothing bad will happen when transcoding it to another lossy > > format. > > There's no need to take that risk, though - like you say, storage is cheap. not if you host participatory/open pro

Re: [Savonet-users] Stream without re-encoding?

2014-02-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Ashworth, > if you're streaming to an online audience, you can bet most of them are > listening on crap speakers. Maybe in the days of Windows XP desktop PCs, but in the tablet era, expensive headphones are common. I'm sure Dr. Dre is doing OK out of that market ;-) Cheers! Daniel ---

Re: [Savonet-users] Stream without re-encoding?

2014-02-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi adiblol, > And recently I listened to some track on YT. It was > only 96kbps but sounded better than some YT uploads tagged HD with > 192kbps. Probably the band uploaded it in good quality, unlike unaware > people uploading mp3 to youtube... A mastering engineer told me that to save money,

Re: [Savonet-users] Savonet-users Digest, Vol 89, Issue 5

2014-02-10 Thread Pranas Gudaitis
Hi David! It just crashes with segfault and it's due to nothing to encode for shine: [New Thread 0xb1fc2460 (LWP 19205)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb1fc2460 (LWP 19205)] shine_BF_freePartHolder (thePH=0x0) at src/lib/formatbits.c:295 295 fr

Re: [Savonet-users] Fallback

2014-02-10 Thread JD Buys
Hi David, Thanks for the reply. It does fallback thanks. I am blaming lack of sleep for my bad tests...=). JD On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:17 AM, David Baelde wrote: > Hi, > > With your code if the http source(s) can't connect, and the queue is > empty, I don't see to what it should fallback. >

Re: [Savonet-users] Fallback

2014-02-10 Thread David Baelde
Hi, With your code if the http source(s) can't connect, and the queue is empty, I don't see to what it should fallback. In any case, an http source does not produce anything when it fails to connect, and thus in those cases the fallback will fall back to the next source just as it would do with a

Re: [Savonet-users] Broken pipe

2014-02-10 Thread David Baelde
Hi, Liquidsoap warns about clients leaving "suddenly" but really it does not matter at all: iirc, it's as if the client exited normally as far as liquidsoap is concerned. I tried on a "liquidsoap -t 'output.dummy(blank())'" and I can definitely reconnect after a killed telnet session. Note that w

Re: [Savonet-users] current git source results in disfunctional liquidsoap on raspbian

2014-02-10 Thread David Baelde
Hi, I do not know of current issues with liquidsoap's git version, but there might be problem with shine. Last time I tried using shine, it was on a pi and it crashed... And I see an unmerged pull request from a contributor to ocaml-shine on github. In any case it would be helpful to say what doe

Re: [Savonet-users] liquidsoap crashed: too many open files

2014-02-10 Thread David Baelde
Hi Alexander, Here is a list of features that use pipes in liquidsoap: src/decoder/external_decoder.ml src/decoder/gstreamer_decoder.ml src/encoder/gstreamer_encoder.ml src/io/gstreamer_io.ml src/operators/video_text_gstreamer.ml src/outputs/pipe_output.ml src/protocols/extproto.ml src/tools/harb