Icecast web source client

icecream is a web-based icecast video source client that allows you to stream audio and video from your web browser to an icecast server.

It is based on a simple nodejs component that runs on a server (which does not have to be the same server as your icecast server). The server must have ffmpeg installed.

It also includes a player page so people can easily view the live video created by icecream.

Screen grab

Install

See the install docs for information on installing and configuring icecream.

Limitations

Only Firefox, Chrome, and Chromium support the MediaRecorder API that is required for generating a video stream (and iOS devices neuter Firefox and Chrome so you simply can't publish a video stream on iPhones or iPads).

Viewing a stream is similarly limited to browsers that can stream webm/vp8 encoded video (Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Opera among others) on Linux, Macintosh, Windows and Android. On iOS (iPhones and iPads) the media player provides a link to users making it easy to install the VLC Media Player app and view the video via vlc with one click.

Helpful directions are provided to users of unsupported browsers.

Credits

Thanks https://github.com/Keyne for pointing me towards https://github.com/fbsamples/Canvas-Streaming-Example.

Thanks to D Sharon Pruitt for the picture of the ice cream cone (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_cream_cone.jpg).

Thanks to GiMaWolf for the clipboard icon (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clipboard_Pictogram.svg)

License

What's with the Facebook license? Yeah, I know. Even though this project has nothing to do with Facebook and I hate the company, it is a derivative of some code published to help people stream to Facebook which sadly was released under this license. Until we figure out a better alternative that allows us to fully release this software as GPL, we are including the license with the project.