NAME
icecast - MPEG Layer III Streaming Server
SYNOPSIS
icecast [-P port] [-p passwd] [-l file] [-d dir] [-c cfgfile] [-b]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the icecast command. It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
icecast is an audio broadcasting system that streams music in the MPEG Layer III format.
The options are as follows:
- -b
-
Force icecast server into the background
- -c configuration_file
-
Use specified configuration file instead of default one (/etc/icecast/icecast.conf)
- -d directory
-
Specifies the directory in which icecast will search for its config files. Default path is /etc/icecast
- -l file
-
icecast will use the given file to store server logs. Default is /var/log/icecast/icecast.log
- -p password
-
Specifies the password used to authenticate stream encoders
- -P port
-
Specifies the port on which the server listens for client connections (default 8000)
FILES
- /etc/icecast/icecast.conf
-
Contains configuration data for icecast. The file format and configuration options are described in the html documentation shipped with the package, located in /usr/share/doc/icecast-server
- /etc/icecast/mounts.aut
-
contains configuration data for icecast mountpoints.
- /etc/icecast/groups.aut
-
contains configuration data for icecast groups.
- /etc/icecast/users.aut
-
contains configuration data for icecast users.
AUTHORS
Icecast was originally written by Jack Moffitt <[email protected]>, Barath Raghavan <[email protected]> and Alexander Havang <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Emmanuel le Chevoir <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, and may be used freely by other.