Michael Bevilacqua (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} time3) wrote,@ 2007-03-25 14:13:00 |
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Linux Audio Streaming Talk at PLUG
Originally published at Bevilacqua.us.
I’m not one for getting in front of people that are on the average, more intelligent than I am and presenting something they probably could figure out themselves in little time or are completely uninterested in. But in this case, this is something I’m passionate about and have been since I first started using Linux.
Linux audio. I’ll be giving a talk on Cross-Platform Digital Audio Streaming at April’s Philadelphia area Linux Users’ Group
Meeting
Linux makes for an incredibly stable platform for audio recording and engineering. I’ve been in love with Linux audio for over 6 years now. It encompasses my whole house audio system, my TV/DVR, and my laptop for sound sculpting/engineering as well as the two Linux/PPC machines I own for doing my ambient show.
On that note, you may be aware that I do an ambient/techno/electronic music show for akaradio.com. You may not be aware that the ambient portion is done entirely in Linux with two different architectures; x86 and PPC on top of spinning vinyl from an analog mixer. In my testing, as compared to using Win2k as the streaming server, this proves to be much more stable and versatile with the proper hardware. Versatility comes from the ability to use icecast in place of shoutcast if you want to also include ogg or aac audio streams to the public. And soon I’ll be researching live streaming video.
The ‘Live’ part is the main portion of my breakthroughs recently. The ability to take a mic or a set of turntables, run them into a preamp/mixer and then into a line-in on a soundcard which then converts the analog signal to stereo mp3 at 128kbps at 44.1khz and streams it to a shoutcast server. This is done with an application called Darkice..
Keep a look out here for more info on the talk. I might actually try to stream it live from the University :-)
