diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index 4548a324..ef764e56 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ Jack Moffitt Michael Smith -oddsock - +oddsock +Karl Heyes diff --git a/README b/README index 4f13ea60..27a84088 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,39 @@ -Icecast2 Beta 3. +icecast 2.x - README +--------------------------------------------------------------------- -This is an beta release. Not all functionality is fully implemented, though -we believe it to be very stable for all the currently available features. +Icecast is a streaming media server which currently supports Ogg +Vorbis and MP3 audio streams. It can be used to create an Internet +radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in +between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added +relatively easily and supports open standards for commuincation and +interaction. + +Prerequisites +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +icecast requires the following packages : + +* libxml2 - http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html +* libxslt - http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/downloads.html +* curl - http://curl.haxx.se/download.html (>= version 7.10 required) + NOTE: icecast may be compiled without curl, however this will + disable all Directory server interaction (YP). +* ogg/vorbis - http://www.vorbis.com/files (>= version 1.0 required) + +A Note About RPMS +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +This section only applies to you if your operating system uses RPMS. + +In order to build icecast, you will need to install the "devel" RPM +packages for each of the prerequisite packages in addition to the +normal RPMS for each package. + +please check the websites for each of the prerequisite packages for +appropriate download links for RPMS. + + +Build/Install +--------------------------------------------------------------------- To build icecast on a Unix platform, perform the following : Run @@ -12,9 +43,11 @@ Run To build and install this release. -A sample config file will be placed in /usr/local/etc (on UNIX) or in the current working directory (on Win32) and is called icecast.xml +A sample config file will be placed in /usr/local/etc (on UNIX) or in +the current working directory (on Win32) and is called icecast.xml -Documentation for icecast is available in the doc directory, by viewing doc/icecast2_TOC.html in a browser. +Documentation for icecast is available in the doc directory, by +viewing doc/icecast2_TOC.html in a browser. Please email us at icecast@xiph.org or icecast-dev@xiph.org, or come and see us at irc.freenode.net, channel #icecast, if you have any troubles.