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Support for MP3, OGG
Theora and Vorbis, WMA, WMV and NSV.
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HTML (Linux/Windows)
and Windows task-bar icon interface
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Remote configuration
via any web browser
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Extremely low memory
footprint and CPU load
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One click streaming -
click on any peercast:// URL to start listening†
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Direct streaming - PeerCast
can act as a standard streaming server such as Shoutcast/Icecast
to provide both direct and P2P streaming.
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Multiple broadcasting
- use mount points to broadcast multiple channels from the
same server
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Anonymous broadcasting
- clients do not tell each other if they are the source or
just listening
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Remote broadcasting -
broadcast to a client located on another machine anywhere
on the Internet
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Icecast/Icecast2/SHOUTcast/WindowMedia
streaming support including relaying from external sources.
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Support for all popular
media players, WinAmp, XMMS etc..
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Fully decentralized -
any PeerCast client can be used to setup a private relay or
provide connection bases to the main network
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Security settings to
control access rights for Connections/Broadcasting/Admin etc..
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IP address filtering
and banning
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Custom settings to limit
bandwidth and the number of connections in/out
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Does not require incoming
ports to be configured
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Full support for ICY-Metadata
(MP3) and OGG Vorbis comment headers for title/artist/song
display
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One-click play for any
channel straight from the Taskbar icon
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Favorite channels list
allowing almost instant reconnection to your channels
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Freeware, not ad/spy
ware
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Open source
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Now includes OggCap - Video
broadcasting tool.
