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Technical information:

The BS-Server program, which runs in your computer, builds a data stream with your pictures and/or audio files, splits this stream in small blocks and uploads them into a directory of your web site using the FTP protocol.

The disk space required in the web server depends on the broadcast bandwidth, but is always less than 5 MB. The disk space actually used is independent of the broadcast duration, because the data blocks uploaded by BS-Server are deleted periodically . You can stream gigabytes of audio and images without ever using more than a few MB of the server disk space.

BS-Tuner programs running in your viewers/listeners computers, fetch the small data blocks uploaded by BS-Server, paste them together to rebuild the original stream, and render your pictures and/or audio.

BS-Server processes audio and images files in real time: there is no need to resample or resize them prior to broadcasting. Audio is compressed with a Vorbis codec, achieving superior quality. Compare these two audio samples, both recorded from 64 Kbps streams, and listen how BS-Server sounds better than Icecast:

sample recorded from a 64 Kbps Icecast audio stream

sample recorded from a 64 Kbps BS-Server audio stream

System requirements:

BS-Server and BS-Tuner run on Windows Vista and Windows XP.
Both programs require Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 . If you have not already  installed this package  in your computer, download it from Microsoft site.

A sound board and a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 are required.

No special software is required in the remote web server. A basic server with no CGI nor PHP will work fine. The maximum number of simultaneous viewers depends on the available bandwidth of the web server. A 10 Mbps bandwidth would allow up to 250 viewers for a 32 Kbps stream.