audio/ezstream 1.0.2 FreeBSD

Command for icecast line servers streaming to utility

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-24
Commit: 8dd6d9fb70
License: GPLv2
Categories: audio
Package size: 70.9 KiB, 214.6 KiB installed

Description

Ezstream is a command line source client for Icecast media streaming servers. It began as the successor of the old "shout" utility, and has since gained a lot of useful features.

In its basic mode of operation, it streams media files or data from standard input without reencoding and thus requires only very little CPU resources. It can also use various external decoders and encoders to reencode from one format to another, and stream the result to an Icecast server. Additional features include scriptable playlist and metadata handling. All of its features make ezstream a very flexible source client.

Supported media formats for streaming are MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora. Native metadata support includes MP3 (ID3v1 only) and Ogg Vorbis, and many more formats when the optional TagLib support has been compiled in.

Ezstream is free software and licensed under the GNU General Public License.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

audio/ezstream

1.0.2

OpenBSD

net/ezstream

1.0.2p1

NetBSD

audio/ezstream

1.0.2nb15

DragonFly

audio/ezstream

0.5.6_10

Install

Binary package:

pkg install ezstream

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/audio/ezstream/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	ezstream>0:audio/ezstream

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

1.0.2

0.5.6_8

0.5.6_11

1.0.2

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

1.0.2

n/a

0.5.6_11

1.0.2

FreeBSD:15:latest

1.0.2

n/a

0.5.6_11

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

1.0.2

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

1.0.2

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 1

check>=0.9.4 : devel/check

Library 1

libshout.so : audio/libshout

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 14

Run dependencies 10

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

Options name: audio_ezstream

Option

Default

Description

DOCS

off

Build and/or install documentation

EXAMPLES

off

Build and/or install examples

TAGLIB

support TagLib

USES: cpe gmake gnome iconv localbase:ldflags pkgconfig
Service scripts: ezstream

Message after installing

The ezstream port has been updated to version 1.0.2.

The configuration file is located at:
    /usr/local/etc/ezstream/ezstream.xml

Several example configuration files are now available in the examples directory:
    /usr/local/share/examples/ezstream/

To configure ezstream, copy one of the example files to /usr/local/etc/ezstream/ezstream.xml:

    # cp /usr/local/share/examples/ezstream/ezstream-minimal.xml /usr/local/etc/ezstream/ezstream.xml

After copying an example configuration, ensure the file has correct permissions:

    # chmod 0600 /usr/local/etc/ezstream/ezstream.xml

Then edit the file to suit your needs.

Available examples:
    - ezstream-minimal.xml     (minimal configuration for Ogg streaming)
    - ezstream-full.xml        (full configuration with all options)
    - ezstream-metadata.xml    (configuration with metadata updates)
    - ezstream-stdin.xml       (stream from standard input)
    - ezstream-video.xml       (video streaming configuration)
    - ezstream-file_template.xml (file template configuration)

Additionally, a new utility 'ezstream-cfgmigrate' is available to help migrate
old configuration files to the new format. See ezstream-cfgmigrate(1) for more details.

The rc.d script now runs ezstream in the background by default.
To enable and start the service:

    sysrc ezstream_enable=YES
    service ezstream start

For verbose output (foreground mode), add the -v flag to ezstream_flags:

    sysrc ezstream_flags="-v"

See ezstream(1) for more details.

Files

Manual pages 3

ezstream(1)
ezstream-cfgmigrate(1)
ezstream-file.sh(1)

pkg-plist 7

bin/ezstream
bin/ezstream-cfgmigrate
bin/ezstream-file.sh
@dir etc/ezstream
share/man/man1/ezstream-cfgmigrate.1.gz
share/man/man1/ezstream-file.sh.1.gz
share/man/man1/ezstream.1.gz

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

ezstream-1.0.2.tar.gz

514884

11de897f455a95ba58546bdcd40a95d3bda69866ec5f7879a83b024126c54c2a

Master sites 2

https://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ezstream/
https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/xiph/releases/ezstream/

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-24

8dd6d9fb70

Pavel Golubinsky

audio/ezstream: Update to 1.0.2

Add devel/check to build dependencies. Use localbase in uses. Add license information. Pet port linters. PR: 297893 Approved by: maintainer timeout (3+ weeks)