Re: questions

Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 23:18:05 -0300
Newsgroups: alt.radio.broadcasting
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Salutations:
Jay \"Boogieman\" Edwards wrote:
>
> "G.T TYSON" <email-address-deleted> wrote in news:email-address-deleted:
>
> > Running a web station with a potentially global reach is fun.
> > But I
> > only have one computer and when I check my email it causes the
> > outgoing stream to hiccup. If I could afford it I would certainly
> > move the server to a separate dedicated computer and let it run 24/7.
> > That will have to remain on my wish list for the time being, hence the
> > disclaimer on my website re: "we broadcast 24 hours but not
> > necessarily in a row".
> > We unleash the beast as often as possible, but the best time to
> > catch
> > us is late at night Eastern USA time.
> >
> > GTTysonIV
> > http://home.nc.rr.com/gttyson/lastradio.htm
>
> Well, you can set up an MP3 stream using winamp/shoutcast on stuff
> scavenged out of the dumpster. In fact, my station runs on a system
> consisting of nothing but throwaways. I run OTSDJ on it now and it's
> running flawlessly on a Celeron 533, 256MB SDRAM, SB32 ISA and a PCI
> Ethernet card. All of this was stuff that people were ready to toss out.
Yeah - I built Radio Free Dexterdyne as a set of win32 background services
on my kids games/surfing W2K PIII.. I run a secured FTP PDF server, an full
2.0+ Apache server and a proper SMTP e-mail server on dedicated IP pipe
from it.. Works great and doesn't flat line anything at the listener(s) end
there or user side here..
One of the reasons for that is that http RealAudio codex (for tunes) is
very a lightweight dataform in comparison to pretty much everything else
out there and thusly the CPU and IDE controller isn't being maxed out by
background services processing the stream or the underlying XSSI routine
that times and randomizes the play library server side here.. I even have
enough juice left over for a perl cored lyric/tune search engine and a
couple of listservers..
My biggest hassle is the bandwidth really.. While the build is probably
good to 200 fixed AM stereo background streams easily on a dedicated PIII
machine - I'm only able reliably carry 40 contiguous streams per 1mbs of
outbound pipe.. $150 a month with 6 IP's.. SureStream is awful - so I used
regulated fixed streams as I do with any binary dataform I pump out the
door ..
There is a nasty twist in the works as regards .pls streaming actually
being sharing when using .mp* or .og* as they natively cache over the 30%
DCMA limit on .pls players.. I don't want any deeper hassle securing the
binaries than I have now and would toss a road flare into the box before
passing around listener trojans on behalf of the vampires..
When I was developing my prototype - most of my test hamsters got walled in
behind networks that block .pls and particularly .mp*/.wm* dataforms to
save on the bandwidth and to avoid the surprise e-mail.. I looked at .pls
and gave up given that the core dataform transaction drops the actual tune
on the client drive as cache without forcing the listeners to process the
dataform manually - which then makes it a 'shared' file - which then does
puts you on the wrong side of the copyright handling responsibility.. As I
figure is fair actually..
Bitcasting works for everyone if you can control the total dataform at the
client.. Listen all you want - but no naughty third party copies for the
car or your pals on out tab please.. In truth, then they could chat with
the ISP folks about bandwidth fees for the heavy sharing junkies instead of
sending out threats to the hapless IM/P2P doomed..
Want to record it as you listen?.. That's why we have been paying a hefty
tax on all blank media up here in Canada (hard drives to Cassette Tape)
since this came up back in the 70's when home stereo and video got
interesting.. Take it up how the administration fees are cutting into
catalogue royalties with them..
As a listener - in the end - I also kinda gave up on ongoing dataform
extension war going on under the hood which was messing with the machine's
performance - I figured out how to secure RealOne (boot - start up RealOne
and pay attention to your task manager) stripped everything else off and
moved on..
I might even try out the subscription version if they ever having anything
I can't get on cable TV..
I'm sorry to sound like some weird RealAudio pusher - I can't even get them
to list my lame little site at theirs for my support of the codex.. But
credit where credit is due - the player is pretty good on the CPU here and
the old G2 codex plays on pretty much anything out there without a lot of
hassles.. I even have a couple of mobile listeners in 'Yurp somewhere
according to the Logs..
--
J Dexter - webmaster - http://www.dexterdyne.org/
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