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ICECAST
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March 5, 2003
Debian Project
  • 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
      Use specified configuration file instead of default one (/etc/icecast/icecast.conf)
      "-d
      Specifies the directory in which icecast will search for its config files. Default path is /etc/icecast
      "-l
      icecast will use the given file to store server logs. Default is /var/log/icecast/icecast.log
      "-p
      Specifies the password used to authenticate stream encoders
      "-P
      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 Hav?ng <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.
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