Ubuntu Manpage: darkice.cfg - configuration file for darkice

NAME

       darkice.cfg - configuration file for darkice

DESCRIPTION

The configuration file consists of sections, with key = value pairs separated with spaces
and/or tabs inside each secion:

[section1]
# this is a whole line comment
key = value
an ugly key name = long value # this end is a comment too

[section2]
# this is a whole line comment in section 2
key = value
an ugly key name = long value # this end is a comment too

A proper DarkIce configuration file contains the following sections:
[general]
[input]
[icecast-0] ... [icecast-7]
[icecast2-0] ... [icecast2-7]
[shoutcast-0] ... [shoutcast-7]
[file-0] ... [file-7]

The order of the sections is not important. Sections [general] and [input] are required,
and at least one of [icecast-x], [icecast2-x], [shoutcast-x] or [file-x] is needed.

In particular, the following sections and values are recognized:

[general]

This section describes general operational parameters (required).

Required values:

duration
Time for DarkIce to run, in seconds. If 0, run forever.

bufferSecs
Data read from the sound card is buffered before sent to the encoder. Each buffer
will be able to hold this many seconds of samples.

Optional values:

reconnect
Try to reconnect to the server(s) if the connection is broken during streaming,
"yes" or "no". (optional parameter, defaults to "yes")

realtime
Use POSIX realtime scheduling, "yes" or "no". (optional parameter, defaults to
"yes")

[input]

This section describes the input (required).

Required values:

device Specify the device to record from, which can be an OSS DSP device, an ALSA source
or you can use Jack audio. - OSS DSP audio device to record from (e.g. /dev/dsp) -
ALSA DSP device name (e.g. hwplug:0,0) - the string 'jack', to have an unconnected
Jack port, or
'jack_auto' to automatically make Jack connect to the first source.

sampleRate
The sample rate to record with, samples per second (e.g. 44100 for 44.1kHz CD-
quality audio, 22050 for 22kHz or 11025 for 11kHz)

bitsPerSample
Number of bits to use for each sample (e.g. 8 bits or 16 bits)

channel
Number of channels to record (e.g. 1 for mono, 2 for stereo)

jackClientName
The name of the jack input channel created by darkice if device=jack is specified.

[icecast-x]

This section describes an output to an IceCast 1.3.x server or Darwin Streaming Server ,
while encoding with a lame encoder. There may be at most 8 outputs, numbered from 0 ... 7.
The number is included in the section name (e.g. [icecast-0] ... [icecast-7]). The stream
will be reachable at http://<server>:<port>/<mountPoint>

Required values:

bitrateMode
The bit rate mode of the encoding, either "cbr", "abr" or "vbr", standing for
constant bit rate, average bit rate and variable bit respectively. Use the bitrate
and/or quality values to specify details of the appropriate bit rate mode.

bitrate
Bit rate to encode to in kBits / sec (e.g. 96). Only used when cbr or abr bit rate
modes are specified.

quality
The quality of encoding a value between 0.0 .. 1.0 (e.g. 0.8), with 1.0 being the
highest quality. Use a value greater than 0.0. Only used when cbr or vbr bit rate
modes are specified.

server The IceCast server's name (e.g. yp.yourserver.com)

port The port to connect to the IceCast server (e.g. 8000)

password
The password to use to connect to the IceCast server

mountPoint
Mount point for the stream on the server

Optional values:

sampleRate
The sample rate of the encoded mp3 output. If not specified, defaults to the value
of the input sample rate.

channel
Number of channels for the mp3 output (e.g. 1 for mono, 2 for stereo). If not
specified, defaults to the value of the input sample rate.

name Name of the stream

description
Description of the stream

url Url related to the stream

genre Genre of the stream

public "yes" or "no", wether the stream is public

remoteDumpFile
The file the IceCast server should dump the contents of this stream on its side.

localDumpFile
Dump the same mp3 data sent to the IceCast server to this local file.

fileAddDate
"yes" or "no" if you want to automaticaly insert a date string in the localDumpFile
name before its extension or at the end of file name if no extension present

fileDateFormat
The date format to use for appending the date to the dump file name. Defaults to
"[%m-%d-%Y-%H-%M-%S]". All format strings acceptable by strftime() can be used, see
the strftime man page for details. Only applicable is fileAddDate is "true".

lowpass
Lowpass filter setting for the lame encoder, in Hz. Frequencies above the specified
value will be cut. If not set or set to 0, the encoder's default behaviour is
used. If set to -1, the filter is disabled.

highpass
Highpass filter setting for the lame encoder, in Hz. Frequencies below the
specified value will be cut. If not set or set to 0, the encoder's default
behaviour is used. If set to -1, the filter is disabled.

[icecast2-x]

This section describes an output to an IceCast2 server, while encoding with the ogg vobis
encoder. There may be at most 8 outputs, numbered from 0 ... 7. The number is included
in the section name (e.g. [icecast2-0] ... [icecast2-7]). The stream will be reachable at
http://<server>:<port>/<mountPoint>

DarkIce supports both fixed bitrate and variable bitrate vorbis streams. When using fixed
bitrate, specify the bitrate using the bitrate field. When using variable bitrate, specify
the quality of the stream by the quality field, which is a value between 0.0 and 1.0.

Required values:

format Format of the stream sent to the IceCast2 server. Supported formats are 'vorbis',
'mp3', 'mp2', 'aac' and 'aacp'.

bitrate
Bit rate to encode to in kBits / sec (e.g. 96). Only used when cbr or abr bit rate
modes are specified.

quality
The quality of encoding a value between 0.0 .. 1.0 (e.g. 0.8), with 1.0 being the
highest quality. Use a value greater than 0.0. Only used when vbr bit rate mode is
specified for Ogg Vorbis format, or in vbr and abr modes for mp3 and mp2 format.

server The IceCast2 server's name (e.g. yp.yourserver.com)

port The port to connect to the IceCast server (e.g. 8000)

password
The password to use to connect to the IceCast2 server

mountPoint
Mount point for the stream on the server

Optional values:

sampleRate
The sample rate of the encoded output. If not specified, defaults to the value of
the input sample rate.

channel
Number of channels for the output (e.g. 1 for mono, 2 for stereo). If not
specified, defaults to the value of the input sample rate. Different channels for
input and output are only supported for mp3, but not for Ogg Vorbis.

maxBitrate
The maximum bitrate of the stream. Only used when in cbr mode and in Ogg Vorbis
format.

name Name of the stream

description
Description of the stream

url Url related to the stream

genre Genre of the stream

public "yes" or "no", wether the stream is public

localDumpFile
Dump the same Ogg Vorbis data sent to the IceCast2 server to this local file.

fileAddDate
"yes" or "no" if you want to automaticaly insert a date string in the localDumpFile
name before its extension or at the end of file name if no extension present

[shoutcast-x]

This section describes an output to a ShoutCast server, while encoding with a lame
encoder. There may be at most 8 outputs, numbered from 0 ... 7. The number is included in
the section name (e.g. [shoutcast-0] ... [shoutcast-7]). The stream will be reachable at
http://<server>:<port-1>/

Required values:

bitrate
Bit rate to encode to in kBits / sec (e.g. 96). Only used when cbr or abr bit rate
modes are specified.

quality
The quality of encoding a value between 0.0 .. 1.0 (e.g. 0.8), with 1.0 being the
highest quality. Use a value greater than 0.0. Only used when cbr or vbr bit rate
modes are specified.

server The ShoutCast server's name (e.g. yp.yourserver.com)

port The source port to connect to the ShoutCast server (e.g. 8001)

password
The password to use to connect to the ShoutCast server

Optional values:

mountPoint
Mount point for the stream on the server. Only works on Darwin Streaming Server,
the original Shoutcast server does not support mount points

sampleRate
The sample rate of the encoded mp3 output. If not specified, defaults to the value
of the input sample rate.

channel
Number of channels for the mp3 output (e.g. 1 for mono, 2 for stereo). If not
specified, defaults to the value of the input sample rate.

name Name of the stream

url Url related to the stream

genre Genre of the stream

public "yes" or "no", wether the stream is public

irc IRC information related to the stream

aim AIM information related to the stream

icq ICQ information related to the stream

localDumpFile
Dump the same mp3 data sent to the ShoutCast server to this local file.

fileAddDate
"yes" or "no" if you want to automaticaly insert a date string in the localDumpFile
name before its extension or at the end of file name if no extension present

[file-x]

This section describes an output to a local file in either Ogg Vorbis or mp3 format.
There may be at most 8 outputs, numbered from 0 ... 7. The number is included in the
section name (e.g. [file-0] ... [file-7]).

Required values:

format Format to encode in. Must be either 'mp3', 'mp2', 'vorbis', 'aac' or 'aacp'.

bitrate
Bit rate to encode to in kBits / sec (e.g. 96). Only used when cbr or abr bit rate
modes are specified.

quality
The quality of encoding a value between 0.0 .. 1.0 (e.g. 0.8), with 1.0 being the
highest quality. Use a value greater than 0.0. Only used when cbr or vbr bit rate
modes are specified.

fileName
The name of the local file to save the encoded data into.

Optional values:

sampleRate
The sample rate of the encoded mp3 output. If not specified, defaults to the value
of the input sample rate. Only used if the output format is mp3.

A sample configuration file follows. This file makes DarkIce stream for 1 minute (60
seconds) from the audio device /dev/dsp at 22.05kHz, 16 bit stereo. It will build up a
connection to the IceCast server yp.yourserver.com on port 8000 with the password
"hackme". The stream will be encoded to 96 kb/s mp3 with quality 0.8, and will be
reachable at http://yp.yourserver.com:8000/live96 to mp3 players. The encoding session
will be stored by IceCast in the file /tmp/server-dump.mp3 on the server side, and also by
DarkIce in the file /tmp/encoder-dump.mp3 on the encoder side.

[general]
duration = 60
bufferSecs = 5

[input]
device = /dev/dsp
sampleRate = 22050
bitsPerSample = 16
channel = 2

[icecast-0]
bitrateMode = cbr
bitrate = 96
quality = 0.8
server = yp.yourserver.com
port = 8000
password = hackme
mountPoint = live96
name = DarkIce trial
description = This is only a trial
url = http://www.yourserver.com
genre = live
public = no
remoteDumpFile = /tmp/server-dump.mp3
localDumpFile = /tmp/encoder-dump.mp3
fileAddDate = no

The following sample configuration file simply encodes the 16 bit stereo 44.1 kHz sound
card input into Ogg Vorbis at average bit rate 96 kb/s for 60 seconds, and saves it in the
local file at /tmp/save.ogg.

[general]
duration = 60
bufferSecs = 5

[input]
device = /dev/dsp
sampleRate = 44100
bitsPerSample = 16
channel = 2

[file-0]
format = vorbis
bitrateMode = abr
bitrate = 96
fileName = /tmp/save.ogg

A bit more complicated sample follows. This one makes DarkIce stream for 1 hour (3600
seconds) from the audio device /dev/dsp at 44.1kHz, 16 bit stereo.

It will build up a connection to an IceCast server yp.your-ice-server.com on port 8000
with the password "ice-hackme". The sound for this stream will be cut at 10500 Hz from
above. The stream will be encoded to average bit rate 96 kb/s mp3 and resampled to
22.05kHz and 1 channel (mono). The stream will be reachable at http://yp.your-ice-
server.com:8000/live96 to mp3 players. The encoding session will be stored by IceCast in
the file /tmp/live96.mp3 on the server side.

It will also connect to a ShoutCast server at yp.your-shout-server.com on port 8001 with
the password "shout-hackme" This stream will be encoded to constant bit rate 128 kb/s mp3
with quality 0.8, and will be reachable at http://yp.your-shout-server.com:8000 to mp3
players.

[general]
duration = 3600
bufferSecs = 5

[input]
device = /dev/dsp
sampleRate = 22050
bitsPerSample = 16
channel = 2

[icecast-0]
sampleRate = 22050
channel = 1
bitrateMode = abr
bitrate = 96
lowpass = 10500
server = yp.your-ice-server.com
port = 8000
password = ice-hackme
mountPoint = live96
name = DarkIce trial
description = This is only a trial
url = http://www.yourserver.com
genre = live
public = yes
remoteDumpFile = /tmp/live96.mp3

[shoutcast-0]
bitrateMode = cbr
bitrate = 128
quality = 0.8
server = yp.your-shout-server.com
port = 8001
password = shout-hackme
name = DarkIce trial
url = http://www.yourserver.com
genre = live
public = yes
irc = irc.yourserver.com
aim = aim here
icq = I see you too

BUGS

       Lots of bugs.

AUTHOR

       Akos Maroy <darkeye@tyrell.hu>

LINKS

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

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

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

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

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

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