Steamcast is designed to make handling and distributing media content to users over the internet. It is also designed to make distributing static multimedia files easy and with little consideration for configuration. The present version comes withe improved memory management of buffers.
v0.9 [Jun 5, 2012]
0.9.9 beta:
* Complete rework of core handles over 10K listeners at 128kbps on a Windows 8 system with 4 cores
* Ogg continuation packets are now properly handled for metadata and first packet.
* Ogg incoming Buffer increased to the largest possible packet size.
* Better threading model for all internal services
* Better ICY protocol detection
* Fixed many race conditions
* Higher performance thread locking
* Better Unique id associated with ever request.
* Fixes to stat counters.
* Performance enhancements in Log
* Tweak panel for HTML5 validation
* Kick all listeners when Steamcast is shutting down.
* Better memory management
* Many small fixes to improve performance and stability
"?icy=y" locks mount to ICY protocol
"?http=y" locks mount to HTTP protocol
All new User Management panel
Configure all aspects of the server from within Webpanel
Default Mount settings added. Use either Default<OptionName> in config or in the panel tab while logged in as an admin.
Multiple source user definitions using the Web Panel
Tabbed interface
Mount Manager user definition one user can maintain multiple mounts.
Ban/Connection filtering based on CIDR as well as IP
Add Mounts in Realtime.
External Steamcast links added
Build date is friendlier to read.
Version information added to About page.
Metadata pass through to XML sheet on supported formats.
Authentication of listeners readded.
Notify options allow authentication scripts to be notified of new connections based on Icecast2 notify capabilities.
Publication list details tab for each mount
Mount specific user management.
Backup mount feature added back in. (Still must be of similar encoding or it won't work)
HTTP/1.1 Protocol server supports all current HTTP 1.1 features including keep-alive
Source from HTTP PUT request (Falls back to ICE/1.0 source)
Transfer-Encoding chunked supported for indefinite streaming to a HTTP/1.1 based client.
Basic Windows service support
Linux Daemon capability with -k flag
IPv6 support. (Experiemental)
Digest Authentication for all HTTP/1.1 connections (more secure than basic)
Listener table sort
Basic Session management (requires client accept cookie)
Configureless mode. Command window will provide link to follow to login to panel and configure from there.
Steamcast will now auto save it's config 5 secs after last change.
- steamcast.ban is no longer needed, use steamcast-users.xml or User Management panel to configure
