[CentOS] No ices for icecast ?

[Keith Roberts]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, David Simpson wrote:

> To: centos at centos.org
> From: David Simpson <david at aicpl.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] No ices for icecast ?
> 
> On 2/01/2011 11:16 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> I have followed this tutorial to install icecast on Centos
>> 5.5,
>>
>> http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_webradio_with_icecast2_ices2
>>
>> but cannot find the ices package for sending the audio
>> to icecast for it to stream.
>>
>> I would like to send the data as mp3, if there is a suitable
>> program to do this.
>>
> I just went through this, and could not find a package for ices. In the
> end I downloaded and compiled DarkIce (once the development libraries
> were installed)   http://code.google.com/p/darkice
>
> Only thing that caught me out, was that you need to specify the output
> device in the DarkIce config file as an icecast2 server, or you get a
> message about opening underlying sink error.
>
> Now happily streaming mp3 data.

Thanks David.

Will take a look at that too.

Keith