- Source: Liquidsoap
Liquidsoap is a scripting language oriented toward the creation of audio and video streams, the manipulation of multimedia files, automation, serving as webserver back-end and more. The language is functional, statically typed with type inference. The language is an original one, but the interpreter is programmed in OCaml and provided as free software.
Streams can be created from various sources such as soundcard captures, playlists, dynamic requests, or online streams. On those signal processing effects can be applied. The streams can be encoded in various formats such as MP3 or Opus, and the actual streaming is performed by serving generated HLS playlists or by using streaming software such as Icecast. Although originally targeted at audio streams, the generation of video stream is also supported.
Usage
Liquidsoap is used as a back-end for radio streaming software such as Airtime, AzuraCast or LibreTime. It is also used by many radios to generate online streams such as the French national radio Radio France, or the Live365 radio network.
Script examples
Scripts mostly consist of variables describing sources generating streams, which can be combined using operators.
For instance, a source can be defined from an online stream by
which can later on be amplified by
A source can also be defined from a playlist by
A source which will play one or the other of the above sources depending on the time of the day can be created by
Finally, the resulting source can be broadcast by an Icecast server as an mp3 stream with
References
Further reading
Mimram, Samuel; Beauxis, Romain (2021). The Liquidsoap book. ISBN 979-8748717717.
External links
Official website
Liquidshop: an online workshop about Liquidsoap
liquidsoap on GitHub
