stream source clients - page six

Stream source clients and what they do.

What are stream source clients?
Stream source clients take audio input or play lists and streams it to the streaming server. The streaming server then lets one or more listeners listen to the stream. With the streaming server and stream source client [program] split into two distinct programs the source client [and source stream] can be situated anywhere. The stream source does not need to be on the icecast server, it can be, but it also can be half the way around the world.



There are various stream source clients. We will look at three. The icecast project has two source clients, ices2 and ezstream. we will also look at using vlc as a source client.