So I am working with a community TV channel to stream their TV station in Audio only formate. I know that they currently use Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder to send a WebTV stream to a provider. What we are discussing is creating an Icecast stream of their TV broadcast.
I am wondering is there a way to take Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder stream and read metadata and send all that to an Icecast stream either using FFMPEG or other technologies?
It is possible to have FFmpeg act as an RTMP server which you could connect your encoder to:
ffmpeg -listen 1 rtmp://127.0.0.1:1935 …
However, I think you'll find it would be better to use FFmpeg in parallel, encoding from the same source. I'm going to guess that you're not using MPEG-4 and AAC audio on your Icecast stream, so it would be better to encode from the source rather than to transcode already lossy audio/video.
As for metadata, depending on your media format, you'll have to handle that out-of-band with a separate script.
