README.win32 - Information about the binary Ezstream distribution for Windows
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1. .ZIP Archive Contents
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|         File          |               Description                    |
+======================================================================+
| \COPYING.txt          | License for using, modifying and             |
|                       | distributing Ezstream.                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| \README.txt           | This file.                                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| \ezstream.1.pdf       | The ezstream manual in PDF format.           |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| \ezstream.exe         | The ezstream executable file.                |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| \ezstream-X.Y.Z.zip   | The ezstream source distribution, from which |
|                       | ezstream.exe was built.                      |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| \examples\*.xml       | Ezstream example configuration files.        |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| \examples\*.sh        | Example playlist and metadata scripts, for   |
|                       | demonstrational purposes (these are shell    |
|                       | scripts.)                                    |
+-----------------------+----------------------------------------------+



2. Installation
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As of version 0.3.0, ezstream no longer comes with an installer. If you have a
previous version of ezstream installed, you might want to simply uninstall it.

The ezstream.exe file will work from any location. To install it, simply copy
it to a location of your choosing. Add this place to your PATH environment
variable, if ezstream.exe is supposed to be executable from anywhere on the
system.



3. Limited functionality
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A few useful features are missing in the Windows version of ezstream. Runtime
control via signals is not possible, and native metadata support is restricted
to MP3 (ID3v1) and Ogg Vorbis tags.



4. Source code
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Ezstream uses
 * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/, BSD-like license)
 * libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/, LGPL)
 * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/, BSD-like license)
 * libogg, libvorbis, libvorbisfile (http://www.vorbis.com/, BSD-like license)
 * libtheora (http://www.theora.org/, BSD-like license)
 * libshout (http://www.icecast.org, LGPL)
 * TagLib (http://ktown.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html, LGPL)

These libraries are statically linked into the ezstream.exe file.

Ezstream itself is licensed under the GPL version 2 (see COPYING.txt for
details.)



5. Support
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For information on how to report issues with ezstream, please visit the
ezstream home page at http://www.icecast.org/ezstream.php