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Dutch Experimental IPv6 MP3 Stream Relay

Posted by timothy on from the semi-practical-application dept.

Remco den Besten writes "In order to promote the IPv6 protocol, some Dutch enthousiasts deploy an IPv6 MP3 stream relay server. So, do something different with your IPv6 connectivity and listen to the streams offered! See & listen (both IPv4 and IPv6)."

8 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. Re:flac by Mopatop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah I know what FLAC is, but streamed? I mean, first you have the issue of encoding flac in realtime, but the bitrate on flac is far too high for most connections. Also the entire point of icecast and shoutcast is they scale to slow and fast connections pretty much transparently.

  2. cure some ignorance by tomstdenis · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even if I load the ipv6 module in linux and use ipv6 applications. Doesn't my ISP have to route ipv6 packets before I can even use it?

    Tom

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    1. Re:cure some ignorance by Styx · · Score: 5, Interesting

      No, you can do IPv6 tunneling over IPv4. See http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/06/01/ipv6 _tutorial.html for instance.

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      /Styx
    2. Re:cure some ignorance by duckstab · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Hurricane Electric offers IPv6 tunnels, and will allocate you a /64 block of addresses. The application forms and some excellent tutorial materials can be found at http://ipv6.he.net/

  3. Re:RIAA in IPv6? by EpsCylonB · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Q. How do I install the IPv6 Protocol for Windows XP or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (SP1)?

    A.

    To install the IPv6 Protocol for Windows XP:

    1. Log on to the computer running Windows XP with a user account that has privileges to change network configuration.
    2. Open a command prompt. From the Windows XP desktop, click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
    3. At the command prompt, type:

    ipv6 install

    Wow, it was literally that easy, now what did it actually do ?

  4. Re:flac by Fweeky · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Yeah I know what FLAC is, but streamed? I mean, first you have the issue of encoding flac in realtime,

    Erm, FLAC is rather fast at encoding, provided you stick to the more sane settings and avoid --super-secret-totally-impractical-compression-lev el (yes, that is a real setting).
    but the bitrate on flac is far too high for most connections.

    It's fine for LAN situations; fileserver under stairs, player under TV, stream over network. The sort of people who would do something like this are precisely the sort of user who would appreciate lossless compression.
  5. Re:Heh by CoolVibe · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Yep, and to top it off, I hacked the xmms port to compile with ipv6 support. I just diffed the contents of the xmms tarball there with the original, made a patch, and submitted it to FreeBSD gnats here.

    Oh, you just want the ipv6 patch I made from it? Go ahead, take it. Just go to your xmms 1.2.7 source root and do a patch -p0, oh well, y'all know the drill.

    Have fun listening :)

  6. How about multicast? by -tji · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you're going to push for a major networking change with streaming media, go for multicast instead. It has a huge direct benefit for streaming media.. The stream source would only need bandwidth for one stream, not one stream multiplied by the number of listeners.