[ale] Multiplexing streaming audio?

[James Sumners]

What you would have to do is cache the content with something like
Squid. Then you would serve the cached content to your network users.
But the nature of the two things you have cited make that a very
difficult, if unrealistic, feat. There is an example in the Squid wiki
about YouTube[1], but nothing specifically targeting internet radio.

I suppose what you could do is figure out what stations your users
listen to, setup a constant stream to disk, and forward all requests
to that station to your local stream. Seems like it would be a lot of
work for little benefit and great headache (it's bound to break).
Wouldn't implementing some strict QoS rules in regard to these
services be easier?

[1] -- http://tinyurl.com/baqrld

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
> Does software to allow multiplexing streaming audio (or video) exist
> for Linux?
>
> This is to solve the problem (that many of you have) at organizations
> where you have lots of people listening to the same few popular
> streaming audio sites, e.g., popular streaming radio stations.
>
> The multiplexer would have only a single stream to each source over
> the Internet and then feed it to everyone wanting to listen to that
> stream.
>
> THANKS!
>
>
> Bob Toxen



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