2010
06.23

AOL prevents use of Shoutcast

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AOL has apparently served the VideoLAN developers with an injunction preventing any ShoutCAST functionality from being included in VLC, or any other application that uses Open Source components or software.  I appreciate this greatly, as the next time I’m tasked with exploring streaming media solutions at work, I’ll have one less contender that I will consider.  To be specific, as far as I’m concerned, ShoutCAST is not a viable solution for any form of streaming media, and must be avoided like the proprietary plague it is.

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  1. ikari said: 2010.06.24 07:54

    What is the RIGHT solution for free streaming? :)

  2. CTown said: 2010.06.24 13:41

    Sorry to hear that. Not that I use Shoutcast or any alternatives, the people at xiph made http://www.icecast.org. Would that be a good alternative?

  3. Casey said: 2010.06.26 15:31

    Funny I use shoutcast exclusively…with VLC. And I don’t have sweat AOL’s shenanigans either. Web based shoutcast page, click on what I want…pls file starts vlc. No sweat.

    tempest in ze teapot for those of us who don’t need an application to hold the shoutcast directory internally. -shrugs.

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