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icecast

NAME

icecast - MPEG Layer III Streaming Server

SYNOPSIS

icecast [-P port] [-p passwd] [-l file] [-d dir] [-c cfgfile] [-b]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the icecast command. It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

icecast is an audio broadcasting system that streams music in the MPEG Layer III format.

The options are as follows:

-b

Force icecast server into the background

-c configuration_file

Use specified configuration file instead of default one (/etc/icecast/icecast.conf)

-d directory

Specifies the directory in which icecast will search for its config files. Default path is /etc/icecast

-l file

icecast will use the given file to store server logs. Default is /var/log/icecast/icecast.log

-p password

Specifies the password used to authenticate stream encoders

-P port

Specifies the port on which the server listens for client connections (default 8000)

FILES

/etc/icecast/icecast.conf

Contains configuration data for icecast. The file format and configuration options are described in the html documentation shipped with the package, located in /usr/share/doc/icecast-server

/etc/icecast/mounts.aut

contains configuration data for icecast mountpoints.

/etc/icecast/groups.aut

contains configuration data for icecast groups.

/etc/icecast/users.aut

contains configuration data for icecast users.

AUTHORS

Icecast was originally written by Jack Moffitt <jack@icecast.org>, Barath Raghavan <barath@linuxpower.org> and Alexander Havang <eel@musiknet.se>.

This manual page was written by Emmanuel le Chevoir <mms@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and may be used freely by other.