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  • #1061
    Dj Buik
    Member

    I made a little guide to setup a audio web stream with Breakaway Broadcast or Live, Shout or Ice-cast and Edcast (Client).
    In this setup we do not use a soundcard, we use LiveLink instead.

    Tested on a Windows 2008 server (32bit) running on a single core pentium 4 CPU (2.6 GHz) with 1G of memory.
    If BBP runs in Max. Quality mode, the CPU utilisation is about 70-80%. Winamp player was used for testing.
    And it runs with NO clitches, plips, plops, dropouts or what ever!

    I took several threads from this forum, and put them together in a setup PDF.
    The PDF has lots of screen shots to make it easy to find the several settings.

    I hope it benefits the 'new webcast users'.

    Please leave any comments or tips in this thread.

    Credits goes to all of you on this great forum.

    v1.2 – Added setup information for SAM Broadcaster
    v1.3 – Added setup information for Breakaway Live & ShoutCast server

    Happy streaming

    ———
    I still got email-demands for this (little outdated) manual.
    So here are my Dropbox file links:

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76718268/Ots_and_midi_and_ipad.pdf
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76718268/OtsAv_and_Webcasting_v1.1.pdf
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76718268/OtsAv_with_Breakaway_-_Step_by_Step_v1.0.pdf
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76718268/Webcasting_with_Breakaway_-_Setup_guide_v1.3.pdf
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76718268/Win7_OtsAv_Breakaway_Live_v1.1.pdf

    #11899
    radiodisco
    Member

    Very precious:)

    Many thanks!

    #11900
    DjSmoothOrl
    Member

    what about shoutcast? with the breakaway broadcast support that too? it’s pretty similar to icecast..i think

    #11901
    timmywa
    Participant

    Shoutcast is very similar other than the lack of requirement of a stream mount point. Just replace all icecast references with shoutcast.

    Bulk,

    One comment, I don’t believe Livelink is needed when using it in your Winamp scenario. You just select Breakaway Pipeline 1 in the Output > DirectSound settings. You would also only need the DirectSound output plugin and not the Null Output one. I believe you benefit from a more direct music data transfer.

    I am a BA Live user and some settings are a little different so please correct me if I’m wrong on this.

    Thanks for the professional looking document!

    #11902
    Dj Buik
    Member

    [quote author=”timmywa”]One comment, I don’t believe Livelink is needed when using it in your Winamp scenario. You just select Breakaway Pipeline 1 in the Output > DirectSound settings.[/quote]

    Never tried that solution actually. Does that work, if you do not have a sound card in your machine?
    I used Winamp only for testing the audio string.

    Will try it out.

    Thanks for the compliment :mrgreen:

    #11903
    Dj Buik
    Member

    [quote author=”DjSmoothOrl”]what about shoutcast? with the breakaway broadcast support that too? it’s pretty similar to icecast..i think[/quote]

    I assume you talk about the Shoutcast server and not the Shoutcast DSP client?

    It is the client, in this case Edcast, who make the connection to the IceCast or Shoutcast server, not Breakaway. So the answer is yes, it is supported.

    You only need the IP address and port number for Shoutcast, mountpoints are not supported by Shoutcast.

    #11904
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Thanks for the PDF! My station now sounds better than it ever has! Give it a listen if you want:

    http://bit.ly/haIuug

    #11905
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Could someone post a similar guide setting up BreakAwayLive with Livelink and Station Playlist studio? I’ve tried using studio with BreakAway live, but find the sound doesn’t get enhanced. Want to know how windows playback and recording devices sould be set up, how things should be configured in StationPlaylist Studio from stationplaylist.com, etc.
    Other than that, thanks for the great guide.
    [quote author=”Dj Buik”]I made a little guide to setup a audio web stream with Breakaway Broadcast or Live, Shout or Ice-cast and Edcast (Client).
    In this setup we do not use a soundcard, we use LiveLink instead.

    Tested on a Windows 2008 server (32bit) running on a single core pentium 4 CPU (2.6 GHz) with 1G of memory.
    If BBP runs in Max. Quality mode, the CPU utilisation is about 70-80%. Winamp player was used for testing.
    And it runs with NO clitches, plips, plops, dropouts or what ever!

    I took several threads from this forum, and put them together in a setup PDF.
    The PDF has lots of screen shots to make it easy to find the several settings.

    I hope it benefits the ‘new webcast users’.

    Please leave any comments or tips in this thread.

    Credits goes to all of you on this great forum.

    v1.2 – Added setup information for SAM Broadcaster
    v1.3 – Added setup information for Breakaway Live & ShoutCast server

    Happy streaming
    [attachment=0:31lm76pv]Webcasting with Breakaway – Setup guide v1.3.rar[/attachment:31lm76pv]
    Can’t upload PDF’s, so i made a RAR file of the PDF.[/quote]

    #11906
    Dj Buik
    Member

    Hello Captain Riker (StarTrek Fan 😀 ),

    I don’t know if LiveLink is compatible with Station Playlist Studio (or vice versa).
    Can you provide more information?
    Which Windows version, sound card (or no card at all), what streaming software etc…..

    I will download the demo of SPS and try to get it work.
    If anybody already tried this, please leave your comments/tips here.

    Look also at this thread (similar question):
    http://www.claessonedwards.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1508

    #11907
    radiorio
    Member

    Just want to point out to anyone using this guide, which by the way is excellently written, that the edcast link has changed

    it is now at http://code.google.com/p/edcast-reborn/

    #11908
    JesseG
    Member

    [quote author=”radiorio”]http://code.google.com/p/edcast-reborn/[/quote]
    congrats. 🙂 google code is great, i’ve run a few projects on it in the past.

    the best advice i can give you to start out with is to change the link to your sourcecode page in the navigation to point to a wiki article instead… And then to copy the content from the normal source page, to that wiki article, but NOT the clone button.

    If you have the clone button available on your sourcecode page, people (read: newbs who couldn’t code their way out of a paper bag) will spam it and make clones like crazy.

    btw, this only applies for Mercurial, not SVN, so you’re OK for now. 😉 But it’s still a nice thing to do, cos then you can add all kinds of extra information on it.

    Also another trick you can do when linking to the pages is to add tm=[tab_number] on the URL, like so:
    http://code.google.com/p/edcast-reborn/ … gelog?tm=4
    And it removes some of the internal navigation for that given section. That helps it look more like a real source/etc page.

    Cheers. 🙂

    #11909
    Dj Buik
    Member

    [quote author=”radiorio”]Just want to point out to anyone using this guide, which by the way is excellently written, that the edcast link has changed[/quote]
    Thanks for the compliment 🙂

    #11910

    Could someone help me with this. I’m a relative beginner, but I really wanna get this set up exactly as described in this guide.

    I am running everything from a VPS running Windows 2003, so there’s no sound card. I am using a trial version of Breakaway Live, and OtsAV.

    I installed all of the software as described in the guide, and moved the dll files around. The only difference I noticed was that the enc_aacplus.dll file was in the Winamp plugins folder, not the main Winamp folder, as described in the guide.

    Anyway, everything went as described until I tried to configure the encoder in Edcast. It had no option for LAME MP3 under the encoder type setting. I have the enc_lame.dll installed in the winamp folder, and also the breakaway folder, but still no option to encode as MP3.

    Very frustrating. Anyone?

    #11911
    HopeRadio
    Member

    I got my SAM Broadcaster work very easily with Breakaway but it sounds like it is clipping
    so I checked cpu usage whith Breakaway running it is using 88% of the cpu cycle on a quad core AMD with 4 GB ram

    this seems alittle excessive to have all four cores at 88% usage windows XP SP3 and Sam Broadcaster 4.9.4

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