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+DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio
+interface (e.g. sound card), encodes it and sends it to a streaming
+server.
+
+DarkIce can record from:
+
+ - OSS audio devices
+ - ALSA audio devices
+ - Solaris audio interface
+ - Jack sources
+ - uLaw audio input through a serial interface
+ - CoreAudio (branch darkice-macosx)
+
+DarkIce can encode in the following formats:
+
+ - MP3 - using the lame library
+ - MP2 - using the twolame library
+ - Ogg Vorbis
+ - Opus
+ - AAC - using the faac library
+ - AAC HEv2 - using libaacplus library
+
+DarkIce can send the encoded stream to the following streaming servers:
+
+ - ShoutCast
+ - IceCast 1.3.x and 2.x
+ - Darwin Streaming Server
+ - archive the encoded audio in files
+
+Optional dependencies: lame, opus, faac, twolame, jack-audio-connection-kit, pulseaudio