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Title: Couldn\'t get xmms to play shoutcast urls
Post by: cmisip on April 25, 2004, 11:09:35 pm

Has anybody been successful doing this?  It works fine on my laptop but not on the Z.

Title: Couldn\'t get xmms to play shoutcast urls
Post by: Foxdie on April 27, 2004, 02:11:09 am

This is because no one has compiled the default mpeg decoder of XMMS for the pdaX ROM, it uses the MAD MPEG Decoder if I remember correctly.

To listen to a shoutcast stream you need the MAD mpeg decoder installed and mplayer, you open up the playlist file and copy down the / one of the IP(s) listed inside and then call mplayer followed by that IP, for example:

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mplayer http://192.168.100.1:8000/

Title: Couldn\'t get xmms to play shoutcast urls
Post by: cmisip on April 27, 2004, 09:53:58 pm

I am using the zynergy 5600 rom with xmms embedded and I have libmad0 installed as well.  I thought that was the mad mpeg decoder.  

I tried it on mplayer and it works. Thanks.

xmms is prettier though with its gui.

Title: Couldn\'t get xmms to play shoutcast urls
Post by: cmisip on April 27, 2004, 11:37:49 pm

I finally got xmms to play shoutcast urls.  However, the only way the gui will load is if I run as root and do a \"ssh localhost\" before I run \"xmms\".  Any ideas why.  There seems to be some permission error somewhere.  user zaurus does not have access to the qui.  user root does not either unless it tries to run xmms via an ssh connection.  Any ssh gurus and qtopia gurus out there care to comment?

Thanks

Title: Couldn\'t get xmms to play shoutcast urls
Post by: cmisip on April 28, 2004, 12:19:09 am

Some more progress here.  Root now has a gui.  I had to do a \"export LOGNAME=root\" so xmms will run with a gui.  No need to do a \"ssh localhost\". The user zaurus still has no gui though.