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<h1 align="center">DarkIce</h1>
<h2>1. What Is DarkIce?</h2>
DarkIce is an <a href="http://www.icecast.org/">IceCast</a>,
IceCast2 and <a href="http://www.shoutcast.com/">ShoutCast</a>
live audio streamer. It takes audio input from a sound card, encodes it
into mp3 and/or <a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis</a>,
and sends the streams to one or more
<a href="http://www.icecast.org/">IceCast</a>,
<a href="http://www.shoutcast.com/">ShoutCast</a> and/or IceCast2 servers.
<br>
DarkIce uses <a href="http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3">lame</a> as a shared
object as its mp3 encoder, and the
<a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis</a> libs as its
Ogg Vorbis encoder.
DarkICe as a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface
(e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming server.
<br>
DarkIce can record from:
<ul>
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<li><a href="http://jackit.sourceforge.net/">Jack</a> sources</li>
</ul>
<br>
DarkIce can encode in the following formats:
<ul>
<li>mp3 - using the <a href="http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3">lame</a>
library</li>
<li><a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/">Ogg Vorbis</a></li>
</ul>
<br>
DarkIce can send the encoded stream to the following streaming servers:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.shoutcast.com/">ShoutCast</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.icecast.org/">IceCast</a> 1.3.x and 2.x</li>
</ul>
<br>
Darkice runs on the following operating systems:
<ul>
<li>FreeBSD</li>
<li>Linux on intel and PowerPC</li>
<li>MacOS X</li>
<li>NetBDS / OpenBSD</li>
<li>NetBSD / OpenBSD</li>
<li>SUN Solaris</li>
</ul>
<br>