gst-playd is a really simple cross-platform service whose sole job is to
play back media files to a list of targets (IceCast and AirPlay), using the
GStreamer API.
It's a single exe, it's simple to manage and configure, and you can run as many as you want in parallel for multiple audio streams.
gst-playd knows nothing about library management. Its goal is to replace Airfoil and Nicecast in the current Play implementation (Play v2)
Sure.
+------------+
| |
| source1 |+ +----------------+
| || | |
+------------+| +------------------+ +-+| icecast |
+---------+ | +---------------+ | | |
+------------+ | | | +----+ +----------------+
| | | | | |
| source2 +----------+ mixer +----> splitter | +----------------+
| | | | | |+ | |
+------------+ +----+ | | |+------+ airport1 |
| +------------------+ +-------------+-+ | |
... | | +----------------+
| |
+------------+-----+ | +----------------+
| | | | |
| source_n + +---------+ airport2 |
| | | |
+------------+ +----------------+
gst-playd will start up a REQ/REP ZeroMQ socket on a specified port - meaning, it will boot up and wait for a request to come in. The requests are really simple string-based, Redis-style commands, something like:
PLAY file:///home/foo/bar.mp3
STOP
And the responses will be equivalently structured:
OK
ERROR IceCast isn't installed. Install it via 'brew install icecast'
Internally, gst-playd will manage the GStreamer Pipeline as well as handle
starting up and configuring the Icecast server (including tying the lifetime
of the icecast process to gst-playd, so if gst-playd dies, it kills the
associated icecasts on its way out)
On OS X:
brew install zeromq --head
brew install gst-plugins-good gst-plugins-ugly gst-ffmpeg ## Get some coffee.
brew link libxml2
./autogen.sh && make