darkice(1)						    DarkIce live audio streamer 						darkice(1)

NAME

       darkice - an icecast / shoutcast live audio streamer

SYNOPSIS

       darkice [options] -c config.file

DESCRIPTION

       DarkIce	as  a  live  audio  streamer.  It  records audio from an audio interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming
       server.	DarkIce can record from:

	   * OSS audio devices
	   * ALSA audio devices
	   * Solaris audio interface
	   * Jack sources

       DarkIce can encode in the following formats:

	   * mp3 - using the lame library
	   * mp2 - using the twolame library
	   * Ogg Vorbis
	   * AAC - using the faac library
	   * AAC HEv2 - using the libaacplus (3GPP reference code)

       DarkIce can send the encoded stream to the following streaming servers:

	   * ShoutCast
	   * IceCast 1.3.x and 2.x
	   * Darwin Streaming Server

       Darkice runs on the following operating systems:

	   * FreeBSD
	   * Linux on intel and PowerPC
	   * MacOS X
	   * NetBSD / OpenBSD
	   * SUN Solaris

       DarkIce uses POSIX real-time scheduling to keep up with sound card input.  POSIX real-time scheduling is only available if the  program	is
       run as root.  Therefore it is recommended that DarkIce is run as root.

OPTIONS

       -c config.file
	      Specifies what configuration file to use.  If not specified, /etc/darkice.cfg will be used.

       -v n   Sets the verbosity level, between 0 and 10. 0 is silent, 10 is loud.  Defaults to 1.

       -h     Prints the help page and exits.

BUGS

       Lots of bugs.

SEE ALSO

       darkice.cfg(5)

AUTHOR

       Akos Maroy <darkeye@tyrell.hu>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Developed with contributions by

	   Jim Crilly, <JCrilly@MSA.com>
	   aNa|0Gue, <analogue@glop.org>
	   Robin P. Blanchard, <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
	   Tom Gray, <tomg@future-i.com>
	   Michael Smith, <msmith@labyrinth.net.au>
	   Julius O. Smith, <jos@ccrma.stanford.edu>
	   the OSALP team, http://osalp.sourceforge.net
	   Kristjan G. Bjarnason <kgb@gangverk.is>
	   Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
	   Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>
	   Atsuhiko Yamanaka <ymnk@jcraft.com>
	   Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
	   John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
	   Christian Forster <forster@like.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
	   John Deeny <taqueso@dilapidated.org>
	   Robert Lunnon <bobl@optushome.com.au>
	   Enrico Ardizzoni <craken@users.sourceforge.net>
	   Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de>
	   Nicholas J. Humfrey <njh@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
	   Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu>
	   <jochen2@users.sourceforge.net>
	   Alexander Vlasov <zulu@galaradio.com>
	   Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl>
	   dsk <derrick@csociety.org>
	   Clyde Stubbs <clyde@htsoft.com>
	   Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer@gmx.net>
	   Elod Horvath <elod@itfais.com>
	   Pierre Souchay <pierre@souchay.net>
	   Daniel Hazelbaker <daniel@highdesertchurch.com>
	   Alessandro Beretta <alessandro.baretta@radiomaria.org>
	   Roland Hermans <roland.hermans@omroepvenray.nl>
	   Rafael Diniz <rafael@riseup.net>

LINKS

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

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

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

       Darwin Streaming Server homepage: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/

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

       TwoLame homepage: http://www.twolame.org/

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

       faac homepage: http://www.audiocoding.com/

       libaacplus homepage: http://tipok.org.ua/node/17

       DarkSnow GTK front-end: http://darksnow.radiolivre.org/index.en.html written by Rafael Diniz

DarkIce 							 November 20, 2007							darkice(1)