[pulseaudio-discuss] darkice/icecast issue

[Colin Guthrie]

Matthew Patterson wrote:
> Colin,
> 
> I finally got around to trying this technique of sending audio out to a 
> shout server. Everything appears to work right from the start. 
> gst-launch starts up, the stream appears on my shoutcast server, etc. 
> But when I connect to the stream it contains nothing but silence. And 
> even more odd is that vlc says the stream is mono when the source 
> monitor is definitely stereo. I dug a little deeper with the pulseaudio 
> manager and sure enough monitor source is producing stereo and there is 
> sound going through it (volume monitor) but the outgoing recording 
> stream sets up as mono??? This is the exact line I'm using:
> 
> gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc device=zone5.monitor ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc 
> ! oggmux ! shout2send ip=127.0.0.1 port=8000 password=#### mount=stream.ogg
> 
> Any ideas?

Well not really TBH. I don't actually use it myself (I just get my 
curiosity piqued easily!)

I'd try replacing the shout2send part of the pipeline with another 
"thingy" (I don't know the term!) perhaps filesink? Slap it to a .ogg 
file and make sure it's OK.... if it's not then I guess it some other 
part of the pipeline and you can perhaps fiddle with it a bit to try and 
work out what's going on...

Col