Streaming Live Audio

Hi there,

this may be a tricky one: I'm looking for a way to stream a live audio source with Serviio.

Let's say there is a mixing console in the basement, connected to a sound card in a Windows machine running Serviio and the signal should be streamed to devices connected to serviio.

The complicated way may be to feed the live input into Winamp's Shoutcast Plugin, which connects to a local Shoutcast server process and setting up this server's URL as an online source in Serviio.

Anyway, a shortcut would be nice.

Have a nice one
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I dug a bit deeper and found that VLC Player indeed has streaming server features. And it's pretty easy to set up, too. With another VLC player on a different PC I can access my own live stream encoded from an analogue input via

rtsp://10.10.1.140:8554/live

On the Serviio server itself (where the VLC streaming server is running as well) Serviio should be able to access

rtsp://localhost:8554/live

I have yet to add that URL in Serviio as an online ressource, but if that works, I'm done and able to access my live stream from any DLNA capable device in my home. Stay tuned for a final report...

Is there any protocol that Serviio prefers over rtsp when it comes to reliablity? VLC offers http, ms-wmsp, rtp/mpeg, rtp/av, udp and icecast.

Unfortunately I can't make the live stream happen on my Win 2008 server as I did before on my Win 7 laptop.

The stream starts counting in VLC, but there is no audio on local speakers where the signal should supposedly be duplicated to, while at the same time a remote VLC player can't connect to the stream. I can see an input signal under local "recording devices", though.