FireDaemon is a great program to run scripts and programs as a Windows Service so that you don’t have to logon the host and start them manually. It’s particularly useful over the basic Windows Task Scheduler in that it will gather standard output from the script you’re running so you can debug your scripts much easier. I’ll walk through an example of configuring a service to run a script such as a simple .BAT file that will start encoding an audio stream.
We are now proud to offer Content Payload Monitoring, notifying you if your audio goes silent or your video freezes for the ultimate confidence monitoring. Currently only Windows Media audio and/or video streams or Shoutcast MP3 streams are supported. Each Payload monitored stream includes Availability monitoring as well. Flash monitoring is coming soon! Contact us today for a trial account to see how it works.
We recently rolled out an update to the back-end services and the control panel that fixed some bugs, added new features and improved performance overall. Updates include Stream Groups, Payload Monitoring and adjustable alerting intervals. Click the link for a list of changes.
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We’re almost there! Now in beta we have frozen video and audio silence detection for your Windows Media and MP3 streams. You’re stream could be perfectly happy spitting out silent, empty content to your customers because the source feeding your media encoder has failed. Now you can be warned immediately if your source is down before your customers grow angry. Contact us to help beta test this new service that ONLY Stream Alerts provides!
We have some new features in beta right now and need your feedback. Contact us for access if you already have an account.
We’re getting close to launching a new product that provides quality monitoring of Flash streams, but we need your help! Fill out our contact form and submit your Flash stream for testing. Preferably live streams, but we can also work with on-demand files as well.
Our Quality Monitoring includes features that none of our competitors offer! We monitor your stream for Audio Silence with the ability to notify you if the sound drops below a set threshold for a given period of time. We can also watch for Frozen Video and send you an alert if there are problems with your feed. We’ll also monitor your stream continuously 24/7 or on a cyclical basis if you prefer. So sign up for the beta today!
Stream Alerts is happy to announce that we now support stream playlists. Plugin the URL to your playlist and we’ll do the heavy lifting for you. > More
We’ve partnered with EGI Hosting to offer a new stream monitoring node located in California, USA. Sign in to your control panel and add or modify your stream settings to use the new node.
Chrysler announced that they are building Internet access into their vehicles starting this year. This means that users can now access your streams anytime they want! Read more at the Washington Post. Better make sure your stream is available.
If you have a critical encoder streaming live audio for an Internet radio station or maybe video for a presentation then you want that encoder to be running all the time and you shouldn’t have to login and restart the encoder manually if the host computer loses power or reboots. The Windows Media Encoder has a wonderfully simple graphical user interface but unfortunately you cannot directly configure it as a service to run in the background when the host starts up. Fortunately Microsoft provides a command line script that you can use to start an encoding session on boot-up.
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