I have decided to separate Fire/EMS and Police/Misc into separate feeds. ProScan is no longer in use. What's old is new again. Windows Media Encoder is providing both feeds. For the moment I am using Streamwebtown for a host. After I am convinced this is going to work, and if Streamwebtown is not reliable enough (it is free so there's no room to gripe), I may switch to a commercial host, which will cost $5.50 per month per feed for 10 users.
The feeds can be accessed in this manner:
Main Portal Page - Displays both feeds simultaneously. Either or both can be stopped so you can listen to only one.
Fire/EMS Feed - Opens Windows Media Player
Police/Misc Feed - Opens Windows Media Player
There are links from the portal menu and the feed feature of this message forum will be updated with the new info asap. Fire/EMS is available in Teamspeak. Police/Misc runs on a Win2K machine which means I can't share the audio between programs, so until an XP box is in place for it it will not be on Teamspeak.
The audio only feed is offline. The web controlled receiver is down for the moment but should be back up this evening. The scanner feed info page will be updated asap.
While both ARC EazyStream and ProScan are excellent programs, neither are 100% prime time yet IMHO, due to their attempt to run in near-realtime. I think that a "buffer" of several seconds is necessary and helps to overcome net congestion. Some of that could also very well be my limited bandwidth. This approach of streaming to a remote server resolves that issue. I actually ultimately was much more frustrated with ProScan's performance than I was with ARC's when listening remotely. However, this "new" approach precludes anyone from having to download proprietary software to listen to feeds, which although easy, seems to be a sore spot for many.
Scanners in use:
Fire/EMS: Uniden BC246T
Police/Misc: Uniden BCD396T (yes, LISTENABLE P25 Audio!)
There is a slight problem with the Police/Misc feed audio. I will get to that asap. A slight high pitched whine in the background when there is no audio.
EDIT: Like a dummy, I failed to acknowledge Scannerbase, who provides their wonderful Advanced Virtual Control software free of charge. I am a donating user of that software. This is the software that is running to provide the visual display.
The feeds can be accessed in this manner:
Main Portal Page - Displays both feeds simultaneously. Either or both can be stopped so you can listen to only one.
Fire/EMS Feed - Opens Windows Media Player
Police/Misc Feed - Opens Windows Media Player
There are links from the portal menu and the feed feature of this message forum will be updated with the new info asap. Fire/EMS is available in Teamspeak. Police/Misc runs on a Win2K machine which means I can't share the audio between programs, so until an XP box is in place for it it will not be on Teamspeak.
The audio only feed is offline. The web controlled receiver is down for the moment but should be back up this evening. The scanner feed info page will be updated asap.
While both ARC EazyStream and ProScan are excellent programs, neither are 100% prime time yet IMHO, due to their attempt to run in near-realtime. I think that a "buffer" of several seconds is necessary and helps to overcome net congestion. Some of that could also very well be my limited bandwidth. This approach of streaming to a remote server resolves that issue. I actually ultimately was much more frustrated with ProScan's performance than I was with ARC's when listening remotely. However, this "new" approach precludes anyone from having to download proprietary software to listen to feeds, which although easy, seems to be a sore spot for many.
Scanners in use:
Fire/EMS: Uniden BC246T
Police/Misc: Uniden BCD396T (yes, LISTENABLE P25 Audio!)
There is a slight problem with the Police/Misc feed audio. I will get to that asap. A slight high pitched whine in the background when there is no audio.
EDIT: Like a dummy, I failed to acknowledge Scannerbase, who provides their wonderful Advanced Virtual Control software free of charge. I am a donating user of that software. This is the software that is running to provide the visual display.
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