MAST - Multicast Audio Streaming Toolkit

MAST is set of audio streaming tools using RTP over IPv4 and IPv6 Multicast/Unicast.

Unlike VAT and RAT, which are designed primerily for audio conferencing, MAST is designed to be used for audio distribution and broadcast. It is currently limited to recieving a single audio source, unlike RAT which can mix serveral sources.

It supports many of the audio payload types in the Audio-visual Profile (RTP/AVP).

MAST is licenced under the GNU General Public License.

For more information please read the README, INSTALL and ChangeLog files. To build MAST, you will need the CVS version of oRTP, which is available here as a tarball for convenience.

Source Download

mast-0.2.2.tar.gz - 183.2k - released 26 Jul 2007
mast-0.2.1.tar.gz - 177.5k - released 11 Jul 2007
ortp-0.13.2-cvs20070725.tar.gz

Tool Manual Pages

mast_info(1) - Display information about first RTP packet received.
mast_cast(1) - Live Audio Broadcaster
mast_filecast(1) - Audio file broadcaster
mast_record(1) - Record/archive audio stream to audio file
mast_rawcast(1) - Directly broadcast a previously encoded audio file
mast_rawrecord(1) - Record/archive raw streams directly to disc

Supported Payloads

  0     8000Hz   Mono     u-law encoded
  3     8000Hz   Mono     GSM
  7     8000Hz   Mono     LPC
  8     8000Hz   Mono     A-law encoded
  10    44.1kHz  Stereo   Raw 16-bit linear audio
  11    44.1kHz  Mono     Raw 16-bit linear audio
  14    -        -        MPEG Audio (no decoder yet)

Full list of RTP payload types at IANA: http://www.iana.org/assignments/rtp-parameters

Dependencies

Related Webpages

Nicholas J Humfrey <njh@aelius.com>