The Best Online Streaming Program

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I am looking for opinions on the best online streaming program.

I am new to this and so far Proscan looks pretty good.

 

[brandon]

ProScan is the best hands down.

Second best option would be Icecast with alpha tags.

 

[GordonE]

I prefer Oddcast, it's free and can stream to Icecast and SHOUTcast servers.

When using an Icecast server an external program (independent of the encoding program) can read talkgroup information from the scanner and send it to the Icecast server to have title-streaming.

 

[cavis]

ProScan is the best hands down.

Second best option would be Icecast with alpha tags.

That ProScan is absolutely the sweetest thing I've ever seen. I have GOT to get one of those bearcat scanners! I just set up Icecast (no tags) with Simplecast, and that was pretty easy to do. Seems to work well, but I am just streaming music until my scanner arrives in the mail.

 

[SkipSanders]

ProScan is great, but of course it requires listeners to download that client, as well, which limits use a bit.

The assorted 'standard' audio streamer programs like icecast/simplecast are more common, and pretty much anyone can 'receive' them with the software they have, but they tend to require more 'setup' knowledge from the sender.

There's also Teamspeak 2.0, which is used for quite a few scanner feeds to central servers, and is quite good at it. Again, users must download the free teamspeak client. This is a handy method to use for 'situational' feeds, where the central server adds short term feeds from its users who happen to be in the area of a current major incident, as well as more long term feeds.

 

[webstar22]

I use the following

Simplecast for Encoding and Monitoring
Talkgroup Monitor for Alpha Tags that a very smart man named Gordon made.
Icecast - Server
ARC250 - Recording
and a custom script that each day zips up all my wav files from the day into a dated file for easy archiving.

Serial Port Sharing Software so I can run ARC250 and Talkgroup Monitor at the same time.

BTW anyone who didn't know that last update Gordon put out a few weeks ago really improves TGM running on shared serial ports. It used to miss some tags but now it misses nothing.

 

[cavis]

Ooohhhh... I never thought about a script to make a daily zip file. Care to share the coding so I/we can modify for our own use? It has been years since I created scripts.

Thanks

 

[webstar22]

It's a pretty basic thing.

First you need a copy of Winrar

Then take this below and make a new file with a .bat extention.

cd C:\Program Files\WinRAR
rar.exe a -agDD-MMM-YYYY -m5 E:\DailyZips\Daily-Backup- E:\*.wav
cd \
del E:\*.wav

You need to change the E:\ (in 3 places) to where ever you will be saving your recordings. Also in the directory where you are saving your recordings create a directory called DailyZips (case sensitve)

Set this with the windows task scheduler to run before midnight so it dates the file properly and that’s it.

It will make you a nice file called Daily-Backup-25-Aug-2007.rar and changes each day with the date.

I tend to run it about 11:55pm just to make sure it has enough time to archive incase it was a high comm day. Also the archive is not compressing it is just doing a store.

I hope it makes sense.

You may need to tweak it depending on your setup. I could have also had the winrar delete the wavs after they are archived but this has been working well for me for 2 years now I am not going to change it now.

 

[cavis]

Excellent. I just modified this for my use and tested it, and it works perfectly. Thanks for the info.

 

[webstar22]

I upgraded my zipping script. I recored with Arc250 so I am able to do this as the filenames go by the date/time and freq.

You are welcome to use it and you will have to change it because your freqs will not be the same.

It moves all the comms from the same freqs into folders and then zips them up.

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*142.8450* e:\DailyRecordings\PembrokePolice\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*142.8450*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*8960* e:\DailyRecordings\2OPS42\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*8960*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*2784* e:\DailyRecordings\MNR\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*2784*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*35680* e:\DailyRecordings\RenfrewEMS\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*35680*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*149.4400* e:\DailyRecordings\FireEmsPaging\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*149.4400*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*150.4700* e:\DailyRecordings\DeepRiverPD\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*150.4700*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*154.3100* e:\DailyRecordings\PembrokeFire\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*154.3100*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*155.2500* e:\DailyRecordings\RenfrewFire\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*155.2500*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*173.* e:\DailyRecordings\CFBPetawawa\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*173.*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*___??.????* e:\DailyRecordings\CFBPetawawaRange\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*___??.????*

xcopy /I e:\DailyRecordings\*.wav e:\DailyRecordings\Others\
del e:\DailyRecordings\*.wav

C:\Progra~1\WinRAR\rar.exe a -df -r -agDD-MMM-YYYY -m0 e:\DailyZips\Daily-Backup- e:\DailyRecordings\

 

[cavis]

Once again, I pirated your syntax for my Proscan software. It tested well, and I'll know how it works in practice come tomorrow night. Thanks again for the help.