[darkice] Re: Can I set captions or titles asyncronously?

  • From: Bill Waggoner <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: darkice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:06:14 -0400

Wow, thanks Mark. I will give that a try. It fits well into my system too.

Bill

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Mark Turner <jmarkturner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> This would be better handled at the streaming server level (icecast or
> shoutcast). You can change the metadata being streamed out using curl.
> Here's one that works for Icecast:
>
> curl -u admin -s
> "http://<YOURICECASTSERVER>:8000/admin/metadata?mount=/<YOURMOUNT>&mode=updinfo&song=El+Paso+Police-Southeast+District"
>
> ...where the items in <CAPS> need to match your setup. Good luck!
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>
> On 06/19/2014 12:00 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote:
>>
>> I have a Darkice/icecast2 server setup streaming the output of my
>> scanner. It captures and streams the local fire and police
>> transmissions.
>>
>> But the scanner has many channels that it captures and I would like to
>> inject the channel name into the stream when a particular channel is
>> received.
>>
>> Is that at all possible with Darkice? I have a separate program that
>> monitors the scanner which does know what the channel name is that is
>> received so I have the information. I'm just not sure how to inject
>> that into the stream. And, If I could, how it would be displayed.
>>
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>>
>> Bill W
>>
>
>

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