[BC] Streaming tutorial

[Edwin Bukont]

Carl

 

Its all on the web.  Look for RTSP. Shoutcast has some tutorials.  But the short answer is, just buy the Barix Instreamer 100 and have the university setup a server using the info from Shoutcast.  You put the Instreamer at the studio, RCA In, Cat5 out.  Barix has made this so easy annoying.  Really no IT skills are necessary.  Can be up and going in 10-15 mins.

 

You put two addresses in the Barix, one of which it gives you.  The other comes from IT.  Passwords optional.  It pushes the data so firewalls tend to not be as big of a hassle, and if the university sets up the server, possibly even less of an issue.  IF you send the stream outside the university to a server, probably even easier.  There is no need for the outside world to have ingress.

 

You will need headphones and a PC to access the webclient.  Overall takes about 30 mins, if that, if the guy configuring the shoutcast server knows what he is doing.

 

I would not waste to many synpases worrying about networking details because between Barix and Shoutcast there just isnt that much to sweat if the rest of your network is already properly configurecd.  In every case where I have had a 'network' problem, the issue was not the Barix or Shoutcast, but rather the competence of the university's IT department.

 

IF the university does not provide DHCP, then connect the Barix to a PC and use the default Barix address.  Set the PC to talk to it.  Enter the webclient and insert the static address given to you by the university.  Reboot and connect it to the university.

 

Something like what Dana suggested is already being done by Comrex but I so far have not found a need for it.  Only one 'preconfigured' version was an issue and that is because the network sent the boxes out with data in the playlist field, which it should not have.

 

In the inverse direction,,,if you want to verify that the stream is leaving, you will need to know a few parameters.  You enter those into WinAmp and can verify the stream is leaving the box even if the university says the data is not leaving the box.

Edwin Bukont CSRE, DRB, CBNT 
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