Trouble with Multiple instances of ScannerCast

[dacaskie]

I am trying to get 8 feeds up and running to broadcast to RR, also was hoping to have some sent to an icecast server to give folks in my fire dept a direct link for listening from their cell phone.

I have just completed the hardware upgrade (new usb pci card and powered hubs) that will allow me to have the 8 RR feeds. i was trying to test it by using my icecast server. it all works fine with 2 or 3 feeds but once i hit 4 or 5 things start to stop showing up on the server and then if i start a 6th version it locks up that instance of scannercast. i am using a batch file to start each instance with an ini file.

I my cpu is only at 20%, still have plenty of memory left per Task Manager...


any ideas on how to get up to my current goal of 8, and then the dream of 12?

thanks
Dan

 

[gmclam]

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I am trying to get 8 feeds up and running to broadcast to RR, also was hoping to have some sent to an icecast server to give folks in my fire dept a direct link for listening from their cell phone.

I am running multiple instances of ScannerCast on multiple PCs with no problems. All my PCs are running XP Pro with the latest .NET drivers loaded (and latest service packs/etc).

Each of my installations has a different assortment of sound cards, but I am typically using serveral $1 USB sound cards from eBay (Hong Kong). ANY problems I have had have been related to the sound cards, mostly because they are identical.

I have just completed the hardware upgrade (new usb pci card and powered hubs) that will allow me to have the 8 RR feeds. i was trying to test it by using my icecast server. it all works fine with 2 or 3 feeds but once i hit 4 or 5 things start to stop showing up on the server and then if i start a 6th version it locks up that instance of scannercast. i am using a batch file to start each instance with an ini file.

The batch file may or may not be your problem. What I did in all cases is create a desktop shortcut for each instance of ScannerCast. Each instance also has its own unique .ini file. I dragged a COPY of these shortcuts into a StartUp directory so the program automatically starts on system reboot. But I can kill any instance, and then restart it with the desktop shortcut.

On one machine I have 8 instances running with two of them feeding RR and the that same audio feeding two other instances. There are obviously 4 other audio sources for 4 other instances.

The machines I am using for streaming are not being used for anything else (no email, no web browser, etc), but do have other related (audio) programs running. I have tons of CPU time left over, and expect to be able to double the number of streams with no issues (other than more sound cards need to be installed).