Need live feed help!

[AZScanner]

OK, here's the scenario.

Icecast/Oddcast running on WinXP. I wrote a quick and dirty little program to feed meta data from the scanner's alpha tags to Oddcast. I'm using port 80 so it will make the trip thru the firewall at work, since that's one of the few they don't block. The host parameter in Icecast is set to the external IP of the router. Port 80 is forwarded to the computer doing the streaming. In oddcast, the IP used is the internal network IP. Router firewall is off, PC's firewall is configured to open port 80 to TCP traffic and Icecast is allowed to do whatever it needs to do as well. Using WinAmp 5.1 as the client to listen to the broadcast.

Alright. On my internal network, it works fantastic. I can connect directly to the PC to listen OR I can point Winamp here: http://prwnstreamd.redirectme.net/stream.ogg (this resolves to my router's external IP). Either way works great.

The problem is, no one OUTSIDE of my network can get to it. It just says "Connecting..." in Winamp and it will sit there all day like that. I've had a couple people try it and they both said the same thing. Here at work, I also just end up sitting at "Connecting...".

I can ping the router no prob, but when I try to open the feed URL in IE it times out. Again, this is externally only, internally works fine, I can stream to any computer in my house.

What am I doing wrong? I've done all sorts of searching online and I'm just stumped by this. Hopefully one of the live feed veterans here can offer some advice. I know about WME but I want to use Icecast/Oddcast so I can do the alpha tags in the feed. Any help or pointers you can give will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-AZ

 

[Tweekerbob]

You wrote a program that goes to Oddcast?? That's cool, I have seen it done for Icecast, but not Oddcast.

It seems you have everything configured properly. The only two general sources for your problem is your WAN IP maybe has changed, or your PC Firewall is acting like a paranoid schizophrenic.

I assume you are running that little No-ip.com DUC program to automatically update your IP? If so, I would change the hostname (or whatever it's called) parameter in Icecast to your dns redirect name. That way if your IP changes, Icecast will be kept in the loop too.

Also, try disabling the pc firewall (temporarily) when you are able to have a friend try to connect. Also, I don't know what kind of router you have, but try ENABLING the firewall on it and keep the port forwarding the same and turned on. I assume it was enabled before all of this and you disabled it to try to get it to work. MAYBE it's funky and won't port forward with the firewall off, maybe.

HTH,

Ryan

 

[Al42]

I know about WME but I want to use Icecast/Oddcast so I can do the alpha tags in the feed.

It's easier to send the tags to Icecast. It's just a plain http connection:

http://<your admin login>:<your admin password>@<your internal IP - 127.0.0.1 will work> :<your port - usually 8000>/admin/metadata?mount=<your mount name - in your case "/stream">mode=updinfo&song=<the alpha tag>

Do it from IE and you'll see what Icecast returns for various errors - typo in the mount, etc.

PC's firewall is configured to open port 80 to TCP traffic

Did you remember to use a static address on the computer that's running Icecast that's outside the DHCP range? Check the port at http://whatsmyip.com/ports/? (It should be open. If Icecast's not running it should time out. It shouldn't be closed or refused.)

 

[AZScanner]

OK, I've changed a few things and hopefully this link will work. Please let me know: http://prwnstreamd.redirectme.net:8000/mesalive.ogg.m3u

 

[nexus]

I tried using winamp and I could never get anything to come up.

 

[1268]

No luck, everytime I try your link says unable to find server. 1268

 

[AZScanner]

Last update:

Sorry folks. I don't know what the deal is, maybe my ISP or my router is preventing it, but not even WME works on this box. I can stream fine on my LAN but not to the net. I've given up on the idea for now.

If someone has an icecast relay or windows media server I can publish it to, I'll be happy to try and get it working that way. But hosting it myself is a no go.

Thanks for all the help,
-AZ