NAME

       oggfwd — pipe an Ogg stream from stdin to an Icecast server

SYNOPSIS

       oggfwd [-hp] [-d description] [-g genre] [-n name] [-u URL] address port password mountpoint

DESCRIPTION

       The  oggfwd  utility  acts  as  a minimal source client for Icecast servers.  It reads an Ogg stream from
       stdin and forwards it to a server specified on the command line.

       The address, port, password and mountpoint arguments are mandatory and have to be given in that order.

   Optional command line parameters
       -d description
               Set the stream description.

       -g genre
               Set the stream genre.

       -h      Print a short usage summay.

       -n name
               Set the stream (i.e. radio) name.

       -p      Allow the stream to be made public in stream directories.

       -u URL  Set the stream URL.

       oggfwd reacts to the hangup signal, SIGHUP, by printing the amount of bytes read from stdin to stdout  at
       the next given opportunity.  How fast it reacts depends on the stream's current bitrate.

EXAMPLES

       To  forward  a  public  Ogg  stream  with the name “Test radio” to an Icecast server, one would pipe that
       stream to an oggfwd command line such as

           oggfwd -p -n "Test radio" radio.example.com 8000 password /stream.ogg

       Encode an Ogg Vorbis stream, dump it to disk and stream it at the same time:

           oggenc - < input.wav | tee streamdump.ogg \
               | oggfwd radio.example.com 8000 password /stream.ogg

AUTHORS

       Programming by
             J^ <j@v2v.cc>
             rafael2k <rafael@riseup.net>
             Moritz Grimm <gtgbr@gmx.net>

       This manual was contributed by Moritz Grimm.

CAVEATS

       Since the password to the Icecast server is given in clear text on the command line, other (local)  users
       will probably be able to see it very easily.

Debian                                            July 30, 2006                                        OGGFWD(1)