[gst-devel] Audio Streaming Project for Radio station in Canada

[Jason Moore]

Hi all! :)

    I'm new here.  I'm wondering if I can steel a little time from 
everyone.  I'm working on a project here in Canada for a Christian Radio 
station (Life 100.3) in Barrie, Ontario.  The project involves sending 
the studio feed (main broadcast) to 3 locations via digital links which 
will be frame relay or VPN over the internet where it will be used to 
feed the main transmitter and two remote transmitters.  I need to 
sustain 128Kps+ at 44Khz audio using MP3 compression per site.  This is 
easily done using streammers like Shoutcast and such but there is a 
little catch(always is).  I'm just wondering if Gstreamer would be a 
good choice to do the following:

Using Linux on all computers, perfer not to have a GUI running and if so 
KDE would be my first choice
Need to provide reliable stream 24/7
If the stream fails at one of the remote sites, switch back to an off 
air receiver (second audio source) at the site
If the stream and off air receiver are dead, then the computer needs to 
play a list of sound files stored on the HD (actually memory location) 
which is updated via RSYNC or something like that.
Monitor the stream for errors and audio problems at the client ends 
which is basically if there is a lot of bad packet loss or very low 
volume level (no auido) then switch to a better source
Have the computer try to always go back to the streamed feed as priority.


    Do you think that Gstream is easy enough to use in the project?  I'm 
a little rusty on the C programming but I'm going to give it a go.  
Information will come back into the noddle once I get back into it.  I 
guess the biggest challenge is to be able to detect if the audio stream 
is good or bad and the volume levels are within reason.

Any information would be great.

Thanks,

Jason Moore