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DarkIce live audio streamer, http://darkice.tyrell.hu/ Copyright (c) 2000-2007, Tyrell Hungary, http://tyrell.hu/

Contents

1. What is DarkIce?
2. Compiling and installing
3. Reporting crashes

1. What is DarkIce?

DarkIce is an IceCast, IceCast2 and ShoutCast live audio streamer. It takes audio input from a sound card, encodes it into mp3 and/or Ogg Vorbis, and sends the mp3 stream to one or more IceCast and/or ShoutCast servers, the Ogg Vorbis stream to one or more IceCast2 servers.

DarkIce is hosted by Tyrell Corporation, at http://darkice.tyrell.hu/

2. Compiling and installing

On how to compile and install, please read the file INSTALL. If you're impatient, try:

./configure
make

The executable built is src/darkice.
To install, try as root:

make install

For documentation, try:

man darkice

3. Reporting crashes

When DarkIce core dumps, please send the backtrace along with your error report to the darkice mailing list: darkice-list@lists.tyrell.hu. Alternatively you could file a bug report at http://darkice.tyrell.hu/trac To get the backtrace information, you need gdb, the GNU debugger:

1. configure and compile using the --with-debug option:

./configure --with-debug=yes
make clean all

2. run darkice from within gdb:

gdb src/darkice

3. set parameters within gdb:

(gdb) set args -c darkice.cfg

4. run:

(gdb) run

5. after coredump, print the backtrace:

(gdb) bt