diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'content/posts/2003-11-23-decoupled-icecast-streaming.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | content/posts/2003-11-23-decoupled-icecast-streaming.html | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/content/posts/2003-11-23-decoupled-icecast-streaming.html b/content/posts/2003-11-23-decoupled-icecast-streaming.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..79b6dab --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2003-11-23-decoupled-icecast-streaming.html @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +date: "2003-11-23T06:45:19Z" +title: Decoupled Icecast Streaming +--- + +<p> +I separated the <a href='http://www.icecast.org/'>Icecast</a> streaming for <a href='/radio/'>Pablotron Radio</a> from <a href='http://www.xmms.org/><acronym title='X Multimedia System'>XMMS</acronym></a>. I'm just using <code>shout</code> to queue files for the stream now. I also wrote a brief script which calls <a href='http://www.ignavus.net/software.html'><acronym title='X On-Screen Display'>XOSD</acronym></a> to notify me when a new song comes on. Here's the script: +</p> + +<pre> +#!/usr/bin/env ruby + +# some XOSD settings +ENV['DISPLAY'] = ':0' +FONT = "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-20-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-2" + +# fork and exit so shout doesn't block +pid = fork +if pid + Process::waitpid(pid, Process::WNOHANG) + exit 0 +end + +# make sure the cue file updates +sleep 1 + +# read the cue file and pipe it to xosd +File::open('/var/log/icecast/.cue', 'r') { |cue| + name, size, rate, time, unknown, ofs = cue.readlines.map { |i| i.chomp } + IO::popen("osd_cat -p bottom -f #{FONT} -s 1 -c \\#ffcc00", 'w') { |osd| + osd.puts "#{time} - #{name}" + } +} +</pre> + +<p> +Why go through all this trouble? So I can use <a href='http://www.xmms.org/'><acronym title='X Multimedia System'>XMMS</acronym></a> to search for and preview songs locally, without messing with the active stream. Plus it's neat to have <a href='http://www.ignavus.net/software.html'><acronym title='X On-Screen Display'>XOSD</acronym></a> notifications for stuff :). +</p> + |