Telos iPort user manual Installing and Using Steamcast, Steamcast Configuration

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web broadcast. Steamcast’s backend XML sheets are supported by other services such as LoudCity for royalty requirements and the interface is also utilized by several IRC and PHP projects to include stats in varying listener locations.

Installing and Using Steamcast

Download the server software from www.steamcast.com.

Windows Installation Procedure: Simply extract the .zip file to a folder (C:\Program Files\ Steamcast\). Once extracted, you can create a shortcut to steamcast.exe on your desktop and edit the steamcast.conf file with your favorite text editor. The steamcast.conf file must be in the same folder as the steamcast.exe file. Once your changes are made and saved back to steamcast.conf you can start steamcast by double clicking either the shortcut or executable.

Unix Installation Procedure: To extract the tar.gz file you can gunzip the distribution file then un-tar the archive. Using a text editor such as vi or pico, open the steamcast.conf file and edit it to your needs. It does not matter where the server runs or what user the server runs under as long as that user has read/write access to the extracted files and the current working directory. To execute steamcast simply issue the command ‘./steamcast’

Running under Windows, you will see something like the command-line window below:

The first line shows that the configuration file has been successfully loaded. The second that the mime types file has loaded. Neither the .vip nor .ban files were present. The PID value was loaded from a .pid file. The encoder has not yet been enabled, so we see that the server is listening for, but has not yet found a source connection. It is also listening for player connections, but of course there are, as of yet, none.

Steamcast Configuration

You configure Steamcast by editing the .conf text file. Here, we will show you an example configuration to work with a typical iPort application. The text below is from the author of the software, who includes these comments in his sample .conf file. As you can see, he carefully explains all of the items. Following is a set-up for up to 16-channel streaming.