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Re: xmms and xiph and live365
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Jean-Yves Lefort |
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Re: xmms and xiph and live365 |
Date: |
Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:51:19 +0200 |
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:51:31 -0500
Douglas Hitchcock <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've been fiddling with this for some time now trying to understand...
>
> I use XMMS for my streamer, xmms %q on both streams and m3us... now
> from my observation, when I double click on a shoutcast stream, it
> downloads the pls and makes it into an m3u file in the /tmp directory,
> and then gives that file to xmms. But it appears not to do the same
> for Xiph and Live365, I'm assuming those cases it's just giving the
> url straight to xmms http://whatever, which doesn't work, which also
> annoys me about XMMS, but I digress.
>
> So my questions are, why do they act differently? How can I get xiph
> and live365 to go into xmms properly? If I can't, what else can I
> use? I tried rhythmbox, which worked for the Xiph fine, and the
> Live365 started to buffer but then it choked on the MP3Pro. I really
> don't care for rhythmbox anyway, I like streamtuner + xmms :-/
They act differently because SHOUTcast sends a list of URLs whereas
Live365 and Xiph just send a single URL.
There is no problem with passing an URL rather than a file to XMMS, it
should handle it fine. And it indeed handles it fine here (XMMS
1.2.10).
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Jean-Yves Lefort
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http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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