two things...
1) is this patch available? I see another comment over in Technical (tRIO Wireless Status) that talks about updates from 09-May-2004. Where are these patches and updates?

2) I too have radio stations that have stopped MP3 streams and are using Real and WindowsMedia formats. I have been working with trplayer and mplayer, using vsound to capture the audio and lame to encode it. The next step is to stream. I considered using the Ice suite, but it's more than I want or need. There is an Apache module that I think will do the trick. My goal is to have each station setup to launch a real-time transcoder when the DAR opens the URL for the specific station I have setup on my streamer. Should be efficient (only transcodes when you are listening).

I will post more when I have a proof of concept working. I'm about 70% there today.