Keith Myers wrote:

> 
> Only way I've been able to listen to streaming audio is with PM123 and only if 
> the stream is MP3.  I think I have on occasion got Warpvision to play
MP3 for me, 
> but it is inconsistent.  I guess the differences in the various
streams trip it up.  
> PM123 alway works for me if you can get at the actual URL.  Shoutcast links 
> don't work as I think there is some sort of Windows lookup that happens first 
> before it actually delivers the actual URL for the streaming content. 
If anyone 
> knows how this Shoutcast mechanism actually works, please enlighten us.  
> Cheers.
> 

Shoutcast streams work fine here (most of the time) with PM123 as a 
Firefox helper app. I have mimetype audio/x-scpls, extensions pls, open 
with PM123.exe. The PM123 dlls have to be on the LIBPATH. AIUI, the 
browser downloads the link target, which has to be a Shoutcast playlist, 
and passes it to PM123. PM123 parses the playlist, identifies the stream 
URL, connects and streams.

However, PM123 used as a stand-alone app won't stream directly from a 
Shoutcast URL. You have to download the link target yourself to a file 
and pass the file to PM123's 'Open File' dialogue.

As for other stream types, I've found nothing that can handle ogg 
streams within a browser. However, ogg123, from the ogg-vorbis package 
on Hobbes, and WarpVision can both play ogg streams when invoked from 
the command line with the stream URL as a parameter.

Regards

Sid Gale


 
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