Broadcast Admin page

The May First/People Link live code lives on dee.mayfirst.org and is published via ​gitlab.

It has two components:

• A client component that users the ​mediarecorder API to capture and send a video stream.
• A nodejs component to pipe the stream to ffmpeg, which sends it to icecast

The code is installed on dee in /home/icream and the service is maintained via /etc/systemd/system/icecream.service.

Icecast

Our code is currently streaming to b.stream.mayfirst.org (sankara).

Iceast is configured using ​the url method of authentication plus wildcard mount points.

In other words, we have the following mount point defined:

    <mount>
      <mount-name>/s-*</mount-name>
      <public>1</public>
      <authentication type="url">
        <option name="stream_auth" value="http://localhost:3000"/>
      </authentication>
    </mount>

The s-* means it will match on any stream starting with s-.

The authentication part says: whenever someone tries to authenticate this stream, send the username and password (via POST) to the given URL.

This setting is complemented with a nodejs web app (published via git://git.mayfirst.org/mfpl/icecast-stream-auth) that is running on sankara in /home/icecast-stream-auth with the service managed via /etc/systemd/system/icecast-stream-auth. This web app simply passes the username and password on to our login service and returns an appropriate answer to icecast.