request: output directly to streaming audio server

[kucharo]

Direct output from Live to a streaming audio server, preferably a mp3 streaming server such as Shoutcast or Icecast.

[Alex Reynolds]

If you have a multichannel audio adapter, you can feed Live into two outputs and then have Apple's free QuickTime Broadcaster take care of it for you:

-- http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/broadcaster/

All the audio codecs available to you via either free QuickTime or $30 QT Pro can be used. Plus OS X has the free built-in web server in Apache so that can be used to serve the RTSP stub file. You can be up and running in about ten minutes, literally.

The nice thing about Macs is that they are easy to set up, the services are reliable, and the hardware is about the same price as a good Windows-based workstation, once you add all the things you get for free with a Mac.

You don't have to pay per-client access fees of Windows Media or Real, nor do you have to deal with viruses or service attacks anywhere to the same degree as with a Windows box.

But the codecs can be CPU intensive, so you might need to run this broadcasting service from a dedicated workstation/laptop. Some codecs, including the MPEG4 codecs, are Altivec-enhanced so a G4 or G5 will help here.

You'll also need a multicast-capable network connection if you want more than one client to connect to your broadcast (but that is the case with any streaming service, not just QuickTime Broadcaster).

-Alex

[noviomatic]

If you're on windows: winamp with shoutcast plugin will do the job.
It helps when your card allows for flexible routing (my Creamware interface does this brilliantly )

[inconspicuous]

bump.

I haven't dug around in a while, so maybe I missed it, but I'd still like some sort of integrated streaming capabilities, whether shoutcast or otherwise.