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?

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Jonsson
8, 2014 1:58 AM, "adiblol" wrote: > Liquidsoap operates on PCM audio, not compressed frames, therefore > re-encoding is mandatory. > Please use only lossless formats as source. Otherwise stream will sound > like crap. > > > W dniu 2014-02-07 23:31, Daniel Jonsson napisaƂ(a

[Savonet-users] Stream without re-encoding?

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Jonsson
Hi! I have set up Liquidsoap as a source to Icecast. My music files are in Opus and they are transcoded by Liquidsoap to Opus. Is it possible to avoid this re-encoding process and preserve quality? I'm thinking about pre-encoding my music into, lets say, Opus 100 kbit/s and then also stream it as