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Transcoding, also referred to as "Multicasting", allows you to re-broadcast your station to additional ShoutCast / IceCast servers at the same time. A transcoded stream is re-broadcasted at ... |
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First, transcoding any Internet radio station takes a considerable amount of CPU resources on our servers. This is why we maintain a separate cluster of servers dedicated to this task.
To transcode... |
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It all comes down to buffering. Just as your media player buffers before actually playing your station, our transcoding servers must buffer when connecting to your main stream. Next, listeners who con... |
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In order for the Transcoding Module to broadcast in Ogg Vorbis format, you must have an IceCast streaming server to broadcast to. Only IceCast streaming servers support Ogg Vorbis streams.
Once you... |
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Yes! Absolutely.
Each transcoded stream can be encoded in either MP3 or Ogg Vorbis format.
Please note: Only IceCast servers support the Ogg Vorbis format. |
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The answer comes down to the term "Lossy Format".
Both MP3 and Ogg Vorbis audio formats are considered to be a "Lossy Format". This means that every time a stream is encoded som... |
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Yes!
You can set each transcoded stream to encode at any bitrate lower than your main stream. |
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Yes! Absolutely.
The transcoding module will broadcast each stream to any ShoutCast or IceCast server. The streams do not have to be broadcasted to the same server.
Note: Only IceCast servers su... |
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