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darkice(1)		   DarkIce live audio streamer		      darkice(1)

NAME
     darkice - an icecast / shoutcast live audio streamer

SYNOPSIS
     darkice [options] -c config.file

DESCRIPTION
     DarkIce  as a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface
     (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server.	 DarkIce
     can record from:

	 * OSS audio devices
	 * ALSA audio devices
	 * Solaris audio interface
	 * Jack sources
	 * PulseAudio sources

     DarkIce can encode in the following formats:

	 * mp3 - using the lame library
	 * mp2 - using the twolame library
	 * Ogg Vorbis
	 * Ogg Opus
	 * AAC - using the faac library
	 * AAC HEv2 - using the libaacplus (3GPP reference code)

     DarkIce can send the encoded stream to the following streaming servers:

	 * ShoutCast
	 * IceCast 1.3.x and 2.x
	 * Darwin Streaming Server

     Darkice runs on the following operating systems:

	 * FreeBSD
	 * Linux on intel and PowerPC
	 * MacOS X
	 * NetBSD / OpenBSD
	 * SUN Solaris

     DarkIce  uses  POSIX real-time scheduling to keep up with sound card input.
     POSIX real-time scheduling is only available if the program is run as root.
     Therefore it is recommended that DarkIce is run as root.

OPTIONS
     -c config.file
	    Specifies  what  configuration  file  to  use.   If  not  specified,
	    /etc/darkice.cfg will be used.

     -v n   Sets the verbosity level, between 0 and 10. 0 is silent, 10 is loud.
	    Defaults to 1.

     -h     Prints the help page and exits.

BUGS
     Lots of bugs.

SEE ALSO
     darkice.cfg(5)

AUTHOR
     Akos Maroy <darkeye@tyrell.hu>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
     Developed with contributions by

	 Jim Crilly, <JCrilly@MSA.com>
	 aNa|0Gue, <analogue@glop.org>
	 Robin P. Blanchard, <Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu>
	 Tom Gray, <tomg@future-i.com>
	 Michael Smith, <msmith@labyrinth.net.au>
	 Julius O. Smith, <jos@ccrma.stanford.edu>
	 the OSALP team, http://osalp.sourceforge.net
	 Kristjan G. Bjarnason <kgb@gangverk.is>
	 Nicu Pavel <npavel@ituner.com>
	 Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de>
	 Atsuhiko Yamanaka <ymnk@jcraft.com>
	 Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
	 John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
	 Christian Forster <forster@like.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
	 John Deeny <taqueso@dilapidated.org>
	 Robert Lunnon <bobl@optushome.com.au>
	 Enrico Ardizzoni <craken@users.sourceforge.net>
	 Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de>
	 Nicholas J. Humfrey <njh@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
	 Joel Ebel <jbebel@ncsu.edu>
	 <jochen2@users.sourceforge.net>
	 Alexander Vlasov <zulu@galaradio.com>
	 Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl>
	 dsk <derrick@csociety.org>
	 Clyde Stubbs <clyde@htsoft.com>
	 Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer@gmx.net>
	 Elod Horvath <elod@itfais.com>
	 Pierre Souchay <pierre@souchay.net>
	 Daniel Hazelbaker <daniel@highdesertchurch.com>
	 Alessandro Beretta <alessandro.baretta@radiomaria.org>
	 Roland Hermans <roland.hermans@omroepvenray.nl>
	 Rafael Diniz <rafael@riseup.net>

LINKS
     Project homepage: http://darkice.org/

     IceCast homepage: http://www.icecast.org/

     ShoutCast homepage: http://www.shoutcast.com/

     Darwin    Streaming    Server   homepage:	 http://developer.apple.com/dar-
     win/projects/streaming/

     Lame homepage: http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/

     TwoLame homepage: http://www.twolame.org/

     Ogg Vorbis homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/

     Ogg Opus homepage http://www.opus-codec.org/

     faac homepage: http://www.audiocoding.com/

     libaacplus homepage: http://tipok.org.ua/node/17

     DarkSnow GTK front-end: http://darksnow.radiolivre.org/index.en.html  writ-
     ten by Rafael Diniz

DarkIce 			November 20, 2007		      darkice(1)

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