All things related to multicast

[Nicholas J Humfrey <>]

Hi,

I am working on a set of simple audio streaming tools - Multicast  
Audio Streaming Toolkit. They are as yet unreleased, but I hope to  
release an initial version in the next few days.

mast_cast - encode and stream live audio
mast_rawcast - stream a previously encoded audio stream


MP3 doesn't cope with packet loss very well if you don't use  
Live555's RFC3119: A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3  
Audio.

So I have been using MPEG Audio Layer 2 - as used with DAB, DVB etc.  
and copes with packet loss much better. It also works well with  
QuickTime and RealPlayer.


The code is in subversion:
http://svn.aelius.com/repos/mast/trunk/

I will make an announcement to the list again when it is ready :)


nick.


On 15 Jun 2007, at 11:20, Gary Parker wrote:

> Morning all, I'm looking for a very simple command-line tool that  
> will take an MP3 audio stream on stdin (from lame, for example) and  
> send this out to a specified group address, port and with specified  
> TTL. Oh, and I don't want to use VLC. So far the closest thing I've  
> found is the testMP3Streamer app from the Live555 source code  
> hacked to accept input from stdin rather than a file but this is  
> rudimentary, to say the least, with no buffering.
>
> Thanks in advance for any sugegstions,
>
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