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Current version 2.0 (26 Sep 12)
Status:  netstatus 3 stations

Advanced configuration


The following items are accessible by clicking the Config button at the top right of Streamer. Most of these settings will not need to be changed.  This section is provided for power users, some broadcasters and those with special requirements.

 
Bandwidth:
Streamer needs to know your internet connection speed in order to calculate how many outgoing feeds it can provide, and to regulate the flow of data. If UDP data is sent too fast it just vanishes.  Upload is the most important setting here. You can set the bandwidth lower if you want to limit the bandwidth that is available to Streamer.

The Redo test button is for forcing a bandwidth test.  The More button will show the Advanced configuration items.

The Presets are simply shortcut buttons for populating the Download and Upload fields with some common preset values.  Streamer defaults to 128/128 when first installed and will attempt a test at that rate.  If you have less, the bandwidth test will set these values lower depending on the results of the test.
 
Audio:
Check the box with the dialog containing 'For ogg' to launch an external player for ogg streams.  The same applies to the 'For mp3' checkbox dialog  but for mp3 streams.  If unchecked, the internal player will be used. 

'Auto start player' will start playback after a station is tuned.  'Restart if it stops' will automatically retry the station if the stream is lost for some reason or length of time.  The retry interval is 15 seconds. 

AAC and AAC+ streams at this time will always launch with an external player and honor the Auto Start and Restart settings described above.
 

Chat:

There are two sections here that are basically identical.  One applies to the public or common chat rooms and the second applies to the DJ Chat of the currently tuned station.

Auto join - automatically join the lobby channel when Streamer starts, or a stations channel when tuned.

Flash message
- Flash the title bar on Streamer and the taskbar when a message arrives, unless chat display is open and Streamer is the top window.  This will also cause the tray icon to alternate patterns.

Show joins
- Show Joined/Left/Vanished/Nick Change messages.

Flash joins
- Flash for Joined/Left/Vanished/Nick Change messages.

Misc:
Auto Play favourite
- If checked will automatically tune to the station in the list with a # mark next to it's entry.
Auto Set Favourite
- This will cause Streamer to move the # entry to the last station tuned so that that station will connect again when you run Streamer again... kinda like a real radio does.
Auto show WebView: When a station is tuned, show it's web info display page in Streamer.
De-shout station names - un-capitalises all-caps station names. (Strict is a more strict version of this .. DUH :-)
Hide Taskbar Icon: Hides the taskbar button. Streamer will only display in the tray when minimized if this is enabled.
Coders Corner: These items are provide for the sole purpose of troubleshooting.  Please do NOT check either of these items unless instructed to do so by a support technician.
Ip's in Use: This section shows the IP addresses that are available on your system.  The retest button will check again for these addresses.  The address that is listed next to the Real box should be the address of your router if you are on a private lan. 
Preferred Adapter/Lan: In most cases, these can both be left set to Auto.  Sometimes however, Streamer will improperly detect which is your lan and which is your public IP address.  This section allows you to force these settings.
 

Ports
The UDP p2p port is the one Streamer uses to communicate with other Streamers. The TCP audio port handles the connection to the local player, to external players if doing conventional serving, a connection from a streaming encoder, and all other http communications. If you run several Streamers from seperate folders on a single pc, you should change their ports. Streamer when first run will check to see if the port it's configured to open is available and if not will try the next one higher until it finds one to use.  These numbers are the ones that you will see in the (in use) values here.  It's best to set the ports to something that is available though especially if you are going to be connecting a streaming encoder for a broadcast.  The defaults button will set the ports back to their default factory values shown here.

Bandwidth use
Unicast serving:
Checking this will allow Streamer to serve the stream in the conventional way, directly to audio players on other pc's. Both the broadcast and listening Streamers can do this, and any listeners who enable this and have spare bandwidth may get included in the .pls file the broadcast streamer serves by http when a listener connects by conventional unicast means.

The following two percentages are only used when Unicast serving is checked.
Unicast % - the percentage of the total upload bandwidth that can be used for conventional stream serving.
P2P % - the percentage of the total upload bandwidth that can be used for p2p streams. The total of these two can be greater than 100%. i.e. unicast 50%, p2p 100%, meaning conventional streams can have up to 50% of the bandwidth, and p2p ones can use all of it. The overlapping range can by used by either type, on a first come first served basis.

This PC is on a LAN/firewalled/cannot accept incoming connections:
This checkbox will normally be automatcially detected and checked if needed. If this is set, Streamer thinks it is behind a NAT router, and will use another public Streamer as a proxy to pass incoming connections to itself. You should set it manually if you know you are behind a firewall that blocks incoming UDP connections. It may keep resetting itself in which case you can use the lock box to stop automatic firewall detection.

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