Author Topic: Why can't I play a stream with XMMS? (Read 3436 times)

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 . 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.

Xumbi · « **Reply #1 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

rgrep · « **Reply #2 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.

Laze · « **Reply #3 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..

rgrep · « **Reply #4 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".

DaMightyWhightyMan · « **Reply #5 on:** October 18, 2004, 04:08:36 pm »

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

gromituk · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2004, 05:22:27 pm »

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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).

Xumbi · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2004, 06:54:25 pm »

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

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