* Introduction This file describes DisOrder's relationship to several different things that get called 'streams'. * RTP Streaming DisOrder is capable to transmitting RTP streams over a suitable network. ** Server Setup To enable this make sure that all players use the speaker process, i.e. execraw rather than exec (or it won't work properly) and configure the network speaker backend: speaker_backend network broadcast 172.17.207.255 9003 broadcast_from 172.17.207.2 9002 The destination address (broadcast) can be: - a broadcast address for a local network - a multicast address The source address (broadcast_from) is optional but may be convenient in some cases. If the destination is a multicast address then you should set the TTL, for instance: multicast_ttl 10 (The destination can also be a unicast address but that's not a tested configuration.) ** Playing The Stream To play, use the disorder-playrtp client. If the destination address was a unicast or broadcast address then: disorder-playrtp 9003 If the destination address was a multicast address then you must specify that, for instance: disorder-playrtp 224.2.3.4 9003 If the client machine has a DisOrder configuration file allowing disorder(1) to connect to the server then the parameters are unnecessary: disorder-playrtp will figure out the details automatically. ** Disobedience Disobedience is capable of running disorder-playrtp in the background (provided it is installed); look for the speaker icon. If it detects that the server is using network play then its volume control will apply to the local volume, not the server's volume. If you run into trouble look for *.log files in the ~/.disorder directory. ** Limitations Currently only 16-bit 44100Hz stereo is supported, which requires about 1.4Mbit/s. At the time of writing I've found this to work fine on 100Mbit/s ethernet and had reports of success with 10Mbit/s ethernet, but have not had any success with wireless. Possibly other lower-quality but lower-bandwidth encodings will be supported in future. If you have a very recent version of sox you may need to set the sox_generation option. See disorder_config(5). * Icecast Streaming This can be achieved using the speaker_command option and Icecast (see http://www.icecast.org/). It will only work if you use the speaker process, i.e. execraw for everything. I used: speaker_command "ices2 /etc/disorder/ices.xml" where ices.xml is: 0 /var/log/ices disorder.log 4 0 lyonesse Various lyonesse disorder output stdinpcm 44100 2 1 /var/disorder/icedata lyonesse.anjou.terraraq.org.uk 8000 SOURCE PASSWORD HERE /disorder.ogg 2 5 80 64000 44100 2 8820 This doesn't seem to get on very well with pausing but you're unlikely to want to pause a stream in any case. I used IceCast 2.3.1 and Ices 2.0.1. You can play the stream with XMMS or whatever. The total setup seems to play rather behind the 'current' time, watch this space for a fix (or contribute one!) If you have a too-recent version of sox you may need to set the sox_generation option. Mark Wooding contributed the original support for this but it's been modified enough that he probably shouldn't be blamed for any bugs in the current code. * DisOrder and Republishing Internet Streams DisOrder doesn't have any built-in support for playing streams but you can make it do so. I use the following in my configuration file: player /export/radio/*.oggradio shell 'xargs ogg123 -q < "$TRACK"' collection fs iso-8859-1 /export/radio After setting this up you'll need to re-read the config file and provoke a rescan: disorder reconfigure rescan /export/radio /export/radio contains a file for each stream, containing the URL to use: lyonesse$ cat /export/radio/CUR1350.oggradio http://cur.chu.cam.ac.uk:8000/cur.ogg You'll probably want to prevent random play of streams: disorder set /export/radio/CUR1350.oggradio pick_at_random 0 You can then queue a stream like any other track. It won't automatically interrupt the playing track, you have to scratch it manually. Go back to normal play by scratching the stream. Local Variables: mode:outline fill-column:79 End: