Just wanted to follow up with my problem with Sky.fm and DI.fm. I found a
work-around, but not something I would consider a fix. On the other hand, I'm
convinced the true fix has something to do with Sky and DI's servers.
I noticed Duncan had suggested using the <mplayer_options> in the fxd file but
I
thought he was referring to the audio podcasts for that. For the streams, he
had
suggested adding arguments by type, but I didn't want to force AAC decoding on
all PLS playlists, because if it wasn't AAC, then Mplayer wouldn't play it.
The other day while sniffing around the Freevo files for another series of
tweaks, I stumbled across the fact you can put <mplayer_options> in the fxd
file. This was pretty much what I needed, since handing over '-demuxer aac' to
force Mplayer to use the AAC decoder would make the streams work. I added
<mplayer-options> to each of the Sky and DI entries (yay sed!) and now they
play
back again. Problem worked-around.
While testing, I did notice something strange. I tried a few AAC streams from
SOMA FM, and when you run Mplayer with verbose output, it dumps the HTTP
header.
SOMA's stream replies with the status 'ICY 200 OK', which is proper for a
ShoutCast stream (I looked it up). DI and Sky, however, reply with 'HTTP/1.0
200
OK'. I can't help wondering if MPlayer gets confused by the response and tries
to find the proper codec (and somehow fails). Regardless, DI and Sky are not
really conforming to the ShoutCast protocol, but since MPlayer seems to be the
only player that chokes on it (Xine, VCL and foobar don't blink an eye) maybe
nobody knows anything is wrong.
Aaaaaaanyhow... short version is it's been worked around and my web radio
streams are back in business. I wanted to tie up the loose ends for future
searches. Because there's nothing more aggravating than finding someone else
with your problem and having the mail/forum thread just die out with no
resolution. ^_^
James
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