KenA Posted July 4, 2009 Share Posted July 4, 2009 Hello, Further to the earlier post about getting Broadwave running on linux, I thought I would write up some experiments I've been carrying out. The problems in the previous post related to getting the native version running, however, I took a different approach, and used a Windows emulator, "Wine". Strictly speaking, Wine isn't an emulator, it just provides a set of Windows APIs allowing Windows .EXE files to run in linux. See www.winehq.org for details. My environment is: Ubuntu linux, version 9.04 Wine, version 1.1.24 Broadwave, version 1.02 for Windows Having used Broadwave on Windows for a year or so, I was comfortable with the configuration of Broadwave. Here's what I did: Wine was already installed. I browsed to the installation exe file, double-clicked, and the usual installation proceeded successfully. After installing, Broadwave started as expected. I started an audio source and tried to connect from a remote PC. I discovered that the default port had not been set to the port number I was expecting, and so I looked at the Options / General tab, and saw the port which had been defined. I connected successfully. As usual, Windows media player on the remote PC connected using http:// ip:port/broadwave.asx?src=1&kbps whereas Winamp doesn't like the ASX, so I used http:// ip:port/broadwave.mp3 and that worked as expected. I now tried to change the port, but for some strange reason, I could not connect on the changed port number. On inspecting Options, I found that the old port number was still there. It seems there's an issue with this, so I took the following steps. I closed and exited Broadwave. I then used the Wine version of regedit to edit the Windows registry on the ubuntu PC. I navigated to: HKLM\Software\NCH Swift Sound\Broadwave\WebServer and changed the value in the registry key Port. That worked, and I can now use my favourite port number. I've only gone as far as live streaming, as that's all I use broadwave for, but it looks promising overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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