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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:01 pm    Post subject: Buffering but no play? Reply with quote
as per the usual, relatively new to this, downloaded SC set it up no probs - realised it's limitations and downloaded icecast, looks great, got it runnign on windows XP, configured the config file and got it working with the shoutast dsp plugin, it's accepting the stream

problem is, any client I "check" the stream in just seems to buffer and never catch up - so dsp is sending to locahost:8000 (which goes to 8001 obviously)
localhost:8000/stream does nothing but buffer and buffer in wmp and real g2 - any ideas?

*quite sure there's something really basic I'm missing here, gonna do some more digging, and if i get a solution before a reply, I'll post it*
many regards in advance,

nath::

Code:

<icecast>
    <limits>
        <clients>100</clients>
        <sources>2</sources>
        <threadpool>5</threadpool>
        <queue-size>524288</queue-size>
        <client-timeout>30</client-timeout>
        <header-timeout>15</header-timeout>
        <source-timeout>10</source-timeout>
        <burst-on-connect>1</burst-on-connect>
        <burst-size>65535</burst-size>
    </limits>

    <authentication>
        lol all fine :)
    </authentication>


    <directory>
        <yp-url-timeout>15</yp-url-timeout>
        <yp-url>http://dir.xiph.org/cgi-bin/yp-cgi</yp-url>
    </directory>
    <directory>
        <yp-url-timeout>15</yp-url-timeout>
        <yp-url>http://www.oddsock.org/cgi-bin/yp-cgi</yp-url>
    </directory>
    <hostname>webdev.chickenkiller.com</hostname>

    <listen-socket>
        <port>8000</port>
    </listen-socket>
    <listen-socket>
        <port>8001</port>
        <shoutcast-compat>1</shoutcast-compat>
    </listen-socket>

    <fileserve>1</fileserve>

    <!-- set the mountpoint for a shoutcast source to use, the default if not
         specified is /stream but you can change it here if an alternative is
         wanted or an extension is required
    <shoutcast-mount>/live.nsv</shoutcast-mount>
    -->

    <paths>
        <basedir>./</basedir>
        <logdir>./logs</logdir>
        <webroot>./web</webroot>
        <adminroot>./admin</adminroot>
        <!-- <pidfile>./icecast.pid</pidfile> -->
        <alias source="/" dest="/status.xsl"/>
    </paths>

    <logging>
        <accesslog>access.log</accesslog>
        <errorlog>error.log</errorlog>
        <!-- <playlistlog>playlist.log</playlistlog> -->
         <loglevel>4</loglevel> <!-- 4 Debug, 3 Info, 2 Warn, 1 Error -->
         <logsize>10000</logsize> <!-- Max size of a logfile -->
    </logging>

    <security>
        <chroot>0</chroot>
    </security>
</icecast>

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karlH
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm guessing it's because those players don't know how to handle m3u playlist files. You can add your own in webroot or place the actual url (without .m3u) in the player. It seems to work here and it is probably ok in winamp.

karl.
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Anonymous
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Good man, thanks for that - next question - an obvious one I guess and one I'm a bit embaressed about asking!

best playlist format (or atleast one which works in WMP (cater for the masses)

just made a SMIL, great for realplayer etc and fixed the buffering there - but as for windows mediaplayer? I thought ASX, but that only does asf files surely?

any help? + cheers for your time
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Anonymous
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:08 pm    Post subject: testing results Reply with quote
Trying to get Windows media player to play and not just buffer content

setup:
Icecast 2.3.1
Shoutcast Source DSP v1.9.0 in winamp
Windows XP

some results of my tests so far:

where base url is server:8000/stream :: this stream doesn't work, only buffers in WMP and realplayer G2

realplayer G2 fix>>
SMIL
Code:

<smil>
<body>
<seq>
<audio src="http://server:8000/stream"/>
</seq>
</body>
</smil>


ASX - doesn't workl for me Sad
Code:

<ASX version = "3.0">
<TITLE>Simple ASX Demo</TITLE>
    <ENTRY>
   <TITLE>testing</TITLE>
   <AUTHOR>me</AUTHOR>
   <COPYRIGHT>none</COPYRIGHT>
        <REF HREF = "http://server:8000/stream" />
    </ENTRY>
</ASX>


and tahts it, the default m3u doesn't work for me in WMP - so any ideas before I waste 10 hours trawling all of google?
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karlH
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There's pls format as well (I don't know if wmp takes that) or maybe the mime type is wrong, try placing that asx file as a file or on webserver and see if the stream works for wmp then.

karl.
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