Re: xmms and xiph and live365

[Jean-Yves Lefort]

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).

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort

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http://lefort.be.eu.org/

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