Live Streaming Audio

[rfrenke]

Does anyone know how I could go about broadcasting a live radio feed? I volunteer for a fire department and maintain the web page, theyt are asking me to see if I can do a live streaming audio feed of out radio traffic, but i don't know much about audio.

 

[DRJ478]

PHP is certainly not an option for this.
There are several streaming servers out there depending on what OS you want to use.

You will probably get better answers posting this in one of the AV forums.

 

[pollux0]

i can certainly do it for you if you live in the Washington dc area

otherwise use Icecast on linux. I have had success with it.

 

[RISTMO]

It's extremely simple if you're using MP3 files (no server configuration needed, just a simple .m3u page), but WAV files are different.

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[CreamCake]

What budget do you have and what format do you want?
I use Windows Media Encoder to stream 4 different live radio stations, but that's spiraling out of control after a user whined about not wanting to install windows media player on his mac. (deal with it i say, and install the Windows media player MAC version...I don't like the quicktime player for windows either, but what chioce do I have when watching a .mov file?))
Now the powers that be want simultaneous live encoding and streaming in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Quicktime, Windows Media, and RealMedia.
The first question is what format would require the LEAST amount of support to YOUR end-users? ie: what player do most have installed already?
Count on ignorance to prevent anyone from installing or uprading any extra software or codecs on their own.