[linux-audio-user] ices-jack pico-howto

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:22:27AM +0200, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
> hi everyone!
> in case you were wondering how to get ices-jack to stream your jack 
> graphs out on the net, here's a quick howto:
> browse svn.xiph.org, get the following modules from /trunk:
> ao, vorbis, ogg, ogg2, theora, speex, vorbis-tools, ogg-tools
> (do this even if you have ogg packages from your distro installed, 
> it won't do no harm and makes sure you've got the latest'n'greatest)
> there's nothing interesting to configure afaik, so you can compile 
> them (in that order) without interaction:
> for i in ao vorbis ogg ogg2 theora speex vorbis-tools ogg-tools; do 
> svn co http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/$i; cd $i; ./configure && make 
> install ; cd .. ; done
> from icecast/branches/kh, check out
> libshout, icecast, ices
> again, not really anything to configure, so the for-loop can do the 
> grunt work...
> now fire up icecast, fire up ices, connect it to your jack graph, 
> and the fun starts.
> the default config files are extensively commented, but here's my 
> config, in case you need some more inspiration:
> http://spunk.dnsalias.org/download/ices.xml
> http://spunk.dnsalias.org/download/icecast.xml
> (the source and server run on different hosts, and icecast runs 
> chrooted and as user icecast)
> btw, a graph with an ogg edge between ices-jack and xmms-jack 
> vertices makes a nice delay effect :) if you use feedback, there's 
> interesting sound deterioration due to repeated 
> ogg-encoding/decoding and noise buildup. here's me toying around 
> with my bass and such a setup:
> http://spunk.dnsalias.org/download/netjam.ogg

Joern, thanks for sharing this. I was afraid I would need to do months 
of reading to figure this out, and it's already been on the todo list
for a few months as it is. But, this looks like it should be much more
simple than I had imagined.

Thanks again,
Eric Rz.