Live Video Broadcasting from the Raspberry Pi

[MaxFlight]

I use an old (semi-broken) laptop with Audacity as a "backup" recorder to my Marantz digital recorder - both feeding off the mixer. I've thought about using my Pi as the backup recorder, but haven't looked into what software might make sense. Any recommendations? And yeah, I'd feed the Pi with a Behringer UCA2xx. Then again, how would I get the audio file off the Pi SDcard into a PC? Hmm.

[erictimmer]

I have been so tempted to get a Raspberry Pi just for the fun of it. I was hoping they would push a speed bump but I guess not. I was at the book store they other day (yeah they still have them) and saw a Raspberry Pi magazine with projects. Looked pretty cool!

[cloudpail]

I would think the Pi has enough horsepower/memory to run icecast or a shoutcast server. Since the Pi runs a bunch of different *nix based distro's it should be able to run them. You might even be able to have it be the media source as well. You would be limited to the 64GB storage card or I'm sure you can implement samba and use audio files stored on another computer.

I think it's time we get a Pi. There is a company in europe that actually does Pi rental/colocation.

[techzany]

I use an old (semi-broken) laptop with Audacity as a "backup" recorder to my Marantz digital recorder - both feeding off the mixer. I've thought about using my Pi as the backup recorder, but haven't looked into what software might make sense. Any recommendations? And yeah, I'd feed the Pi with a Behringer UCA2xx. Then again, how would I get the audio file off the Pi SDcard into a PC? Hmm.

Oops, I've failed to reply to this forum topic, sorry guys.
MaxFlight: I don't think you have to remove the SD card and put it in another computer to read the audio files. You can access them via SFTP (secure network protocol) -- more details can be found in the linked tutorial. Unfortunately, I didn't explain how to remotely access the Pi. Let me know if you need some help and I'll consider another blog post.

I have been so tempted to get a Raspberry Pi just for the fun of it. I was hoping they would push a speed bump but I guess not. I was at the book store they other day (yeah they still have them) and saw a Raspberry Pi magazine with projects. Looked pretty cool!

Eric: I know! There are so many amazing projects out there. I wish I had time to explore more. Let us know what you come up with!

I would think the Pi has enough horsepower/memory to run icecast or a shoutcast server. Since the Pi runs a bunch of different *nix based distro's it should be able to run them. You might even be able to have it be the media source as well. You would be limited to the 64GB storage card or I'm sure you can implement samba and use audio files stored on another computer.

cloudpail: This is theoretically possible and I can't wait to test it out. It shouldn't be too difficult to grab an audio source (either live input or pre-existing media) from a remote source.. or local on the SD card. Colocation can be found all over the world. (or even host it from your home.. assuming the Pi isn't doing the Icecast distribution.. just sending the stream to a real Icecast server.) If you're looking for hosting: check out the article John recently posted on the IAIB blog!!

http://www.ibroadcastnetwork.org/blo...-radio-station

[erictimmer]

BTW: My Raspberry Pi should be here by Wednesday!! I gotta head out and get a couple SD cards so I can have swap-able OS's for all the projects I want to try.