Building Network radio stations with Realsystem server

The popularity of the broadband network for personal webcast brings the possibility, whether you want to build an RM radio station on the Internet? The following is an example of Realsystem Server Plus, which describes how to build a network of radio stations online.

Installation

Realsystem Server Plus can be downloaded at RealNetworks's official website (www.realnetworks.com), and should be noted when downloading: E-mail address information must be accurately filled in, Because the authorization code needs to be received to be used on the server.

The installation of Realsystem Server Plus is similar to other similar software, but you need to enter the authorization code file during the installation process, click the "Browse" button to select the authorization code file, such as authorizing 1000 users of the authorization file is realserver8.0.1-500. Click the Next button to install when you are prompted to do so.

During the installation process, you will also be required to set the username and password of the Realserver system administrator, depending on your needs. In the next step, Realserver prompts you to set some port numbers, keeping the default values.

Start the system

After installation, you will create two shortcut icons on the Windows desktop, double-click the "Realserver 8.0 Administrator" icon to log on to the Internet and prompt for the user and password to fill in the dialog box with the username and password you just set.

Configure IP addresses

Open Web page is our management interface, the upper left corner will display the identity name of the machine, remember this identity name.

If your system is a dynamic IP, such as the use of ADSL network, you need to reset the IP address binding. Click the "config/general setup/ip Binding" option in the list of options on the left, and in the interface window on the right, click the "Add New" button to add a 0.0.0.0 IP address that points to the local IP address. If it is a dedicated line or a user with a fixed IP, you need to add the native IP directly to the list, and then click Apply.

To broadcast in real time

For real time broadcasting, you need to cooperate with Realproducer, start the Realproducer, open the New Session dialog window, select the "livebroadcast" option, and click the OK button.

In the Open dialog box, select the Capture Audio and Capture video options and set up a collection of videos and audio devices in the Drop-down list.

In the next dialog box, you need to set up some information about the network radio station, which can be filled out according to your own situation.

Then you need to select the type of network transfer rate that the media file needs to support, select a multiple transfer rate (multi-rate), click Next to complete the setup, and the system will also require media server information to be set up. In real Server, enter the "current Realserver" of the Realserver Management interface, which is the native identity. Then in the "Server Port" to maintain the default value of 4040, file name (Filename) can be defined according to their own needs, in the username and password parts, you need to fill in the Realserver set in the username and password, and select " Archive Broadcast to File option so that broadcast information can be saved in the specified path.

Select Transfer Rate

Write User name and password

When all settings are complete, enter the Realproducer main interface window, click the "Start" button, you can use any player to play a MP3 or other music, you will see "Audiolevel" appears the green, red ups and downs of the volume prompts, then we have started the webcast.

Detecting Webcasts

We can use RealOne Player to test whether the webcast is playing properly.

Start RealOne Player, enter "rtsp://your IP address/encoder/movie.rm" in the browser address bar or pnm://your IP address/encoder/movie.rm.

(Small note:/encoder/movie.rm and the http://itnow.myrice.com/encoder/movie.rm mentioned below are the locations of the files that the author wants to play on their computer and network, and you can set them according to your own circumstances.) )

In addition, if you are using a dynamic domain name, you can use it directly, then you do not have to use the IP address. For example, enter RTSP://HTTP://ITNOW.MYRICE.COM/ENCODER/MOVIE.RM directly in the address bar. At this point you can see RealOne player appears beginning buffer words, while on the right side will be prompted live words, then it shows that our network radio station has been working properly.

How many people are listening?

So how do we know how many listeners there are? At this point you can double-click the Realserver 8.0 Administrator icon, open the Admin Interface window, click the "Monitor" option in the list on the left to see the status of the system used, click "Connections" tab to see how many people have connected to the server to listen to your webcast, and also to display their IP address information.