[darkice] Re: dumpfile size 4G+

  • From: JoergSorge <joergsorge@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: darkice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:41:35 +0100

Hi Borut,
> This allows us to save mp3 stream (without headers, but can be opened in
> - for instance - Audacity, or fixed with mp3val so it can be played by
> any player) and also combine files back together without any gap. Our
> previous archiving solution created gaps of multiple seconds, which was
> very unfortunate when a show was being cut in the middle.

We use rotter to record our output. Its a stable nice tool:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/rotter.1.html
Maybe, it can do what you are looking for...

I've a set of little tools to manage stream and recording:
https://github.com/srb-fm/stream-srb

Regards,
Jörg



> I don't remember the exact URL I used to do this (I got the information
> from multiple places), but this one
> (https://sites.google.com/site/glyman3home/darkice-file-dump) contains a
> script that is similar to what we use now. If you're interested I can
> upload our scripts to github. We use runit to run darkice (so it
> auto-restarts should it crash) and hourly cron jobs to signal darkice to
> do the cutting and some glue to properly (re)name the files.
> 
> We do however have a problem that i've been struggling with for a while
> now, so I might as well ask now, if someone could help. Occasionally the
> connection from the encoder machine (on our internal network) and
> icecast (external) fails and when that happens, darkice also stops
> archiving the stream to disk. I could probably solve this by using
> [file-x] sections instead of archiving from [icecast-x], but that would
> mean running another encoder and I haven't come around to doing it yet.
> The problem does not happen often, maybe once a month, but it is annoying.
> 
> best regards,
> Borut Mrak
> Radio Študent, Ljubljana (FM 89.3)
> 
> On 12/05/2014 03:38 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
>> Hi @ll,
>>
>> the dumpfile of our running mp3 stream
>> http://livestream.wueste-welle.de:8000/mp3
>> is growing and growing - since Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:00:51 +0100.
>> Current size: 4.6G.
>>
>> This makes it impossible thinking the stream to be run on a raspberry
>> pie.  I
>> wonder wether this is intended behaviour and if so, wether this is any
>> good
>> for.
>>
>> Any thoughts of this?
>>
>> I'm running darkice from the svn-repo version 1.2 (560??)[1] on Archlinux
>> 64-bit.
>>
>> [1] Any chance to get information about this from a built binary?
>>
>> Friedrich
>>
> 
> 
> 



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