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don't know if this belongs here but it seems technical so i'll give it a shot. now i heard that you can send two encoded stream on one stream. is that possible?

 

for example, i want to have two different streams for people to listen, one 24kbps and one 32kbps. instead of having 2 different streams, can i send both streams on one stream of 56kbps to the server?

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If you are running a Transcoder, then you could sent one 56k stream and have it broken down into a 32k stream and a 24k stream, which would give you 3 streams.

 

But you really are still sending out 3 streams then, if you are worried about the bandwidth.

 

Also a transcoder is very CPU intensive and will slow down your PC.

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a transcoder is very CPU intensive and will slow down your PC.

 

Tell me about it. A fellow broadcaster I knew, who isn't in the business anymore, he had a transcoder installed on his PC and froze up his entire PC and messed it all up. His station was off the air for a few weeks while he tried to get his computer back to normal speed. Unfortunately, he didn't know it was his transcoder slowing it down and uninstalled a bunch of useful programs like Microsoft Word just to try to speed it up. Eventually he figured it out and swapped back to just one stream.

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don't know if this belongs here but it seems technical so i'll give it a shot. now i heard that you can send two encoded stream on one stream. is that possible?

 

for example, i want to have two different streams for people to listen, one 24kbps and one 32kbps. instead of having 2 different streams, can i send both streams on one stream of 56kbps to the server?

 

Actually - this IS possible - but only with Windows Media Servers. We call it Multistreaming at Mouse to Mouse although other hosting providers may describe it differently.

 

Two differing bandwidth options can be superimposed into one stream. If listeners tune in via Microsoft Windows Media Player - it can automatically detect and tune into the most appropriate stream depending on bandwidth capabilities.

 

Other media players such as Winamp don't possses the function to automatically determine the most suitable feed - so it is a Microsoft based solution. Quite a few of our Windows Media Server based clients utilise this system with great success.

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thanks for all the replies. ok so besides windows media servers, can i stream to the sc server with one stream if i intended to use two different formats such as 32k mp3 and 32k aac+? or do i need two separate 32k streams?

 

the idea of that is for the corporate environment, because they cannot download plugins for aac and neither do they have the most latest players and are limited to download and install.

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thanks for all the replies. ok so besides windows media servers, can i stream to the sc server with one stream if i intended to use two different formats such as 32k mp3 and 32k aac+? or do i need two separate 32k streams?

 

the idea of that is for the corporate environment, because they cannot download plugins for aac and neither do they have the most latest players and are limited to download and install.

 

You need two separate servers in this scenario. Granted 32K aac+ sounds pretty good, but I would be more inclined to go to a 96K or 128K mp3 stream for broadband users. If you can't afford that, at least a 64K stream along with your 32, and run the 64K stream at a sample rate of 44K mono. Sounds better than stereo at 22K.

 

aac+ is a great format, but not all media players support it. With an mp3 stream, you are pretty sure it will work with just about any media player and computer.

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thanks for all the replies. ok so besides windows media servers, can i stream to the sc server with one stream if i intended to use two different formats such as 32k mp3 and 32k aac+? or do i need two separate 32k streams?

 

the idea of that is for the corporate environment, because they cannot download plugins for aac and neither do they have the most latest players and are limited to download and install.

 

This is actually possible, I have seen it before from a host, it would depend on which hosting company you are with. Basically they handle the transcoding, you just send one stream to them and they can split it into multiple MP3 / AAC streams, for a price of course.

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