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Title: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS?
Post by: gromituk on October 17, 2004, 06:43:00 pm

I can go to shoutcast.com on my Linux box, pick a radio station, and it starts up XMMS and happily plays it.  Looking at the file info of a random station I get something like http://64.236.34.196:80/stream/1038 (http://64.236.34.196:80/stream/1038) .  If I put this into Play Location in XMMS on rc5 (dillo doesn't have the capability to start up XMMS), it does nothing.  I can play wav files, and connect to the net with my WCF12 wifi card.  Anyone know what's amiss?  Thanks.

Title: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS?
Post by: Xumbi on October 17, 2004, 09:49:13 pm

Make sure you have xmms-mad and libmad installed for mp3 streams, and xmms-tremor and tremor installed for ogg streams.  If you want to test an ogg stream try http://bemetal.icecast.net/bemetal.ogg (http://bemetal.icecast.net/bemetal.ogg)  

Title: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS?
Post by: rgrep on October 18, 2004, 03:04:50 am

I have the same problem trying to play MP3 streams (haven't tried an OGG stream yet) it just does nothing.  I don't think the MAD plugin supports streams.  Under RC3 it would try to play them using the standard XMMS MPEG 1/2/3 plugin but it was so awfully slow that it would jump and skip horribley.  I wonder if the new VFP support would allow the floating-point MP3 plugin to perform better.

Title: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS?
Post by: Laze on October 18, 2004, 05:37:12 am

I can stream shoutcast from my internal network just fine - using WinAMP and shoutcast on windows and stream it from my Zaurus works just fine.. Great for having music in the shower although i normally use the files instead but just tried streaming - works fine..

Title: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS?
Post by: rgrep on October 18, 2004, 02:09:58 pm

My problem might be due to the format of the stream I'm trying to play.  If I use wget to download the stream then I can play the files, but I can't seek (ff/rewind) in them and they don't show any time on the counter.  File says their format is "MP3,  32 kBits, 22.05 kHz, Mono".

Title: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS?
Post by: DaMightyWhightyMan on October 18, 2004, 04:08:36 pm

I'm having similar problem streaming from Chronix Agression's stream.

Title: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS?
Post by: gromituk on October 18, 2004, 05:22:27 pm

Quote

Make sure you have xmms-mad and libmad installed for mp3 streams, and xmms-tremor and tremor installed for ogg streams.

xmms-mad and libmad seem to be there (default rc5 installation).  

Title: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS?
Post by: Xumbi on October 18, 2004, 06:54:25 pm

I think I was wrong, it won't work for me either...