Icecast - Mar 2005 - New User Installation: Questions about live streaming

I recently installed icecast and iceS and all seems to be well. 

I have spent four days trying to understand and use darkice and finally gave 
up. Using darkice configuration:

[general]
duration = 0 # do it forever
bufferSecs = 10
[input]
#device=hw:0,0
device = /dev/dsp
sampleRate = 22050 # 44100 or 22050 or 11025...
bitsPerSample = 16 #16 bit samples
channel = 2 # 1 for mono, 2 means stereo.
[icecast-0]
bitrateMode = vbr # cbr, abr or vbr...
quality = 0.8
server = localhost
port = 8000
password = password
name = Br
description = This is only a trial
mountPoint = sample96
url = http://127.0.0.1
genre = my own
public = yes

At startup, I can not get pass the message:
DarkIce 0.14 live audio streamer, http://darkice.sourceforge.net
Copyright (c) 2000-2004, Tyrell Hungary, http://tyrell.hu

Using config file: ./darkice.cfg
Using OSS DSP input device: /dev/dsp
17:30:43: encoding
17:30:43: scheduler high priority 99
17:30:43: Using POSIX real-time scheduling, priority 98
17:30:43: BufferedSink, new peak: 0
17:30:43: BufferedSink, remaining: 163840
17:30:43: BufferedSink, new peak: 7
17:30:43: BufferedSink, remaining: 163833
17:30:43: BufferedSink, new peak: 22
17:30:43: BufferedSink, remaining: 163818

DarkIce: LameLibEncoder.cpp:75: lame lib opening underlying sink error [0]

netstat -na|grep 800
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8000                0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8001                0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 192.168.2.2:33003           192.168.2.2:8000            
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 192.168.2.2:8000            192.168.2.2:33003           
ESTABLISHED

I believe that I read somewhere that the "sink error" is a hostname
error?? I
would really like to see it work, but do not know what else to try. From 
here, I attempted to compile and use liveice. It compiles and then complains 
after issuing "make install":
make: ./mkdirs: Command not found
make: *** [installdirs] Error 127

A locate produces no results for mkdirs.

So, I then moved on MuSE, which is running. Now my unanswered question that I 
have posed several times on #icecast irc. I am trying to understand how voice 
is added to the stream. I can hear myself speaking through the speakers on 
the icecast host, but not with a client. What else do I need to configure to 
hear my voice on the client?

Thanks
Flash

Flash Love wrote:

 > DarkIce: LameLibEncoder.cpp:75: lame lib opening underlying sink 
error [0]


this generally means that darkice couldn't connect to icecast for some 
reason. please double check that you are indeed using icecast 1.x (not 
2, or specify an icecast2 section in darkice instead), that the host 
name, port and password are all correct.


Akos

I am still working to insert mic in a stream. I found a walkthru 
here:http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread6875.html and I have been 
trying to get ices to accept the sample script. I am seeing the complaint: 

XML Parser: Document of invalid type, no ices namespace found
Logfile opened
Could not find a valid playlist file.
Ices Exiting...
 
As far as I can tell, the config file's syntax is correct. What else should
I
look for?

Flash