NAME

darkice - an icecast / shoutcast live audio streamer

SYNOPSIS

darkice [options] -c config.file

DESCRIPTION

DarkIce as a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server. DarkIce can record from:

* OSS audio devices
* ALSA audio devices
* Solaris audio interface
* Jack sources
* PulseAudio sources

DarkIce can encode in the following formats:

* mp3 - using the lame library
* mp2 - using the twolame library
* Ogg Vorbis
* Ogg Opus
* AAC - using the faac library
* AAC HEv2 - using the libaacplus (3GPP reference code)

DarkIce can send the encoded stream to the following streaming servers:

* ShoutCast
* IceCast 1.3.x and 2.x
* Darwin Streaming Server

Darkice runs on the following operating systems:

* FreeBSD
* Linux on intel and PowerPC
* MacOS X
* NetBSD / OpenBSD
* SUN Solaris

DarkIce uses POSIX real-time scheduling to keep up with sound card input. POSIX real-time scheduling is only available if the program is run as root. Therefore it is recommended that DarkIce is run as root.

OPTIONS

-c config.file

Specifies what configuration file to use. If not specified, /etc/darkice.cfg will be used.

-v n

Sets the verbosity level, between 0 and 10. 0 is silent, 10 is loud. Defaults to 1.

-h

Prints the help page and exits.

BUGS

Lots of bugs.

SEE ALSO

darkice.cfg(5)

AUTHOR

Akos Maroy <darkeye@tyrell.hu>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Developed with contributions by

Jim Crilly, <JCrilly@MSA.com>
aNa|0Gue, <analogue@glop.org>
Robin P. Blanchard, <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
Tom Gray, <tomg@future-i.com>
Michael Smith, <msmith@labyrinth.net.au>
Julius O. Smith, <jos@ccrma.stanford.edu>
the OSALP team, http://osalp.sourceforge.net
Kristjan G. Bjarnason <kgb@gangverk.is>
Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>
Atsuhiko Yamanaka <ymnk@jcraft.com>
Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Christian Forster <forster@like.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
John Deeny <taqueso@dilapidated.org>
Robert Lunnon <bobl@optushome.com.au>
Enrico Ardizzoni <craken@users.sourceforge.net>
Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de>
Nicholas J. Humfrey <njh@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu>
<jochen2@users.sourceforge.net>
Alexander Vlasov <zulu@galaradio.com>
Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl>
dsk <derrick@csociety.org>
Clyde Stubbs <clyde@htsoft.com>
Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer@gmx.net>
Elod Horvath <elod@itfais.com>
Pierre Souchay <pierre@souchay.net>
Daniel Hazelbaker <daniel@highdesertchurch.com>
Alessandro Beretta <alessandro.baretta@radiomaria.org>
Roland Hermans <roland.hermans@omroepvenray.nl>
Rafael Diniz <rafael@riseup.net>

LINKS

Project homepage: http://code.google.com/p/darkice/

IceCast homepage: http://www.icecast.org/

ShoutCast homepage: http://www.shoutcast.com/

Darwin Streaming Server homepage: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/

Lame homepage: http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/

TwoLame homepage: http://www.twolame.org/

Ogg Vorbis homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/

Ogg Opus homepage http://www.opus-codec.org/

faac homepage: http://www.audiocoding.com/

libaacplus homepage: http://tipok.org.ua/node/17

DarkSnow GTK front-end: http://darksnow.radiolivre.org/index.en.html written by Rafael Diniz