Shoutcast

[loops]

Hey Hey!

I know most people are into podcasts, however, I was wondering if any of you guys are into shoutcast.

For the life of me, I can't seem to get the last part to work, I can get the server running, all my plug ins and settings are fine, but having people connect just doesn't go through, blah.

[pilgrim]

Is your firewall blocking the port?

[bman]

The only thing that should block it is a firewall...don't know anything else.

[sugarsickness]

I have used it before both with winamp and with some broadcasting software (cant remember the name >< ) to stream to a few friends of mine. I would love to really get into that sort of thing but ehhh :(

[evilxhwnd]

are you behind a router?

[tdfx]

Make sure your firewall / router has the open port. Also it is a good idea to change the default port because like my ISP they block the default port for Shoutcast.

Also unless you have a BIG upload rate like 5meg up or more you will only be able to hold like 2 to 8 listeners at the most. I know with my 1meg upload I can get 6 before it cuts out.

Also you will eat a lot of bandwidth if you stream to a lot of people but since you can't handle too many it might not be a problem. I know I ran a shoutcast on a dedicated server that had 1tb of bandwidth a month and I used 600gig of it up within 24 hours streaming to over 100 people. So think about it. I think there is a site that will calc how many people you can stream and what amount of bandwidth you will use.

*EDIT*

Here ya go.

http://www.mediacast1.com/calculator.php?list=calc_bwneeds

You can calc listeners or bandwidth needs.