How to provide a live audio stream?

partygirluk · #1 07-17-2005, 01:37 AM

Hi,

how would one go about providing a live internet audio stream similar to the Cardplayer audio commentary stream of the WSOP ME final table? What would be the costs involved?

Thanks,

Dean

testaaja · #2 07-17-2005, 10:19 AM

I don't know about cardplayer's audio commentary, but you can stream audio with nullsoft's shoutcast serverprogram ( http://www.shoutcast.com/download/ ) and it's free! And yes you need quite a bit of bandwidth for good streaming.

partygirluk · #3 07-17-2005, 10:52 AM

presumably I would needa microphone too?

testaaja · #4 07-17-2005, 10:57 AM

Yes, but I think that shoutcast needs audiofiles and you can't put really 'live' with it. If you want to talk to someone you could use ventrilo http://www.ventrilo.com/ .

partygirluk · #5 07-17-2005, 11:21 AM

This would be for commentary from a bridge tournament. It would be important to have a live stream, or at worst delayed by a couple of minutes.

testaaja · #6 07-18-2005, 03:14 AM

I don't know if you can make a ventrilo server that allows other not to talk. But if you can then it is good for you.