I am trying to create an interface with an external server, and don't know where to start. I would need to take audio as input to my computer, and send it to the remote server as a chunked HTTP request. The API that I'm trying to connect to is described here p1-5
I have never worked with audio programmatically, so don't know what would be the most straightforward way to go about this? Are there solutions that exist out there that already do this?
I've come across references to Shoutcast, VLC, Icecast, FFMPeg, Darkice, but I don't know if those are appropriate for what I'm trying to accomplish or not.
Best Answer
IceCast, ShoutCast and the like aren't going to help you except in that they employ the ffmpeg library to do their encoding and stream utility functions.
You'll need to download the ffmpeg library it is written in c but has wrappers written most languages if you are not comfortable writing in native c code. You will also want to check out the ffmpeg develper docs.
Do not, I mean it DO NOT attempt to do the encoding yourself unless you already are extremely comfortable with this procedure or have a LOT of time to spend on this. Use the standard PCM encoding that is offered by ffmpeg.