Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 21:51 +0800, Justin wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:31 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED].net Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams 2005-03-07 17:37 On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, Whats the best way to actually be able to play Internet Radio? eg: Shotcast/Icecast Streams. I noticed the plugin shoutcast grabber.pl but am unsure how to use it. Can anyone help me out with this? ps: I dont want to run a icecast server. I added the following line to my AUDIO_ITEMS section ; (WebRadio, /home/freevo/fxd/webradio.fxd), Location of the fxd file is wherever you want, but the fxd file contains the info for each radiostation. Like so; ... [SNIP] . The only problem I appear to have with this system is forcing the webradio audio to use my digital out hwplug from my soundcard, whereas all my other movies and music use digital flawlessly. (*shrug*) Thanks Justin, It worked perfectly. The only thing which is not working perfectly is unfortunately the Audio Stream played by either Mplayer or fbxine. There seems to be cracks and hisses in the stream when played from xine. Is there another alternative for this?? (trying it out from my laptop using xine cracks and hisses, xmms is fine.) Does it crack and hiss over the top of the broadcast? or do you only get cracks and hisses? If you only get cracks and hisses then I suspect (only maybe) that your audio setup could be trying to passthrough into a non-digital receiver (or some other such mismatch). It could well be similar to the problem I am having. Xmms also works perfectly for me in digital, but only with certain stream types (xmms does not handle them all). In my case I would prefer to use mplayer, as it supports all the stream types. Unfortunately there appears to be a problem with the webradio plugin in freevo, where it does not pay attention to /home/user/.mplayer/config default settings, nor the default settings in the freevo video section. There may be an easy way to set webradio mplayer settings.. I just haven't seen it documented. If anyone has a clue on this, some enlightenment would be appreciated. -Justin I found a fix for this. It isn't particularly elegant, but follows; As the webradio plugin appears to ignore much of the /user/.mplayer/config as well as mplayer settings in freevo (is this because mplayer is called as '-slave' ?) you need to specify the mplayer options within the webradio fxd file itself. An example for digital playback follows; ?xml version=1.0 ? freevo container title=Web Radio type=webradio audio title=6PR urlhttp://203.30.47.38/6pr/url cover-img6PR.jpg/cover-img mplayer_options-ao alsa:device=hw=0.3 -ac hwac3, -format 512/mplayer_options /audio /container /freevo Your required settings will likely be different, but this is where they can go. Also note that this mplayer_options line must be included with each station (unless someone can suggest an alternative). Regards, -- Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
[Freevo-users] Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams
From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED].net Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams 2005-03-07 17:37 On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, Whats the best way to actually be able to play Internet Radio? eg: Shotcast/Icecast Streams. I noticed the plugin shoutcast grabber.pl but am unsure how to use it. Can anyone help me out with this? ps: I dont want to run a icecast server. I added the following line to my AUDIO_ITEMS section ; (WebRadio, /home/freevo/fxd/webradio.fxd), Location of the fxd file is wherever you want, but the fxd file contains the info for each radiostation. Like so; ... [SNIP] . The only problem I appear to have with this system is forcing the webradio audio to use my digital out hwplug from my soundcard, whereas all my other movies and music use digital flawlessly. (*shrug*) Thanks Justin, It worked perfectly. The only thing which is not working perfectly is unfortunately the Audio Stream played by either Mplayer or fbxine. There seems to be cracks and hisses in the stream when played from xine. Is there another alternative for this?? (trying it out from my laptop using xine cracks and hisses, xmms is fine.) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 19:21:30 up 10:11, 8 users, load average: 0.22, 0.31, 0.35 --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:31 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: From: Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED].net Re: Playing Shoutcast/Icecast Streams 2005-03-07 17:37 On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 10:28 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, Whats the best way to actually be able to play Internet Radio? eg: Shotcast/Icecast Streams. I noticed the plugin shoutcast grabber.pl but am unsure how to use it. Can anyone help me out with this? ps: I dont want to run a icecast server. I added the following line to my AUDIO_ITEMS section ; (WebRadio, /home/freevo/fxd/webradio.fxd), Location of the fxd file is wherever you want, but the fxd file contains the info for each radiostation. Like so; ... [SNIP] . The only problem I appear to have with this system is forcing the webradio audio to use my digital out hwplug from my soundcard, whereas all my other movies and music use digital flawlessly. (*shrug*) Thanks Justin, It worked perfectly. The only thing which is not working perfectly is unfortunately the Audio Stream played by either Mplayer or fbxine. There seems to be cracks and hisses in the stream when played from xine. Is there another alternative for this?? (trying it out from my laptop using xine cracks and hisses, xmms is fine.) Does it crack and hiss over the top of the broadcast? or do you only get cracks and hisses? If you only get cracks and hisses then I suspect (only maybe) that your audio setup could be trying to passthrough into a non-digital receiver (or some other such mismatch). It could well be similar to the problem I am having. Xmms also works perfectly for me in digital, but only with certain stream types (xmms does not handle them all). In my case I would prefer to use mplayer, as it supports all the stream types. Unfortunately there appears to be a problem with the webradio plugin in freevo, where it does not pay attention to /home/user/.mplayer/config default settings, nor the default settings in the freevo video section. There may be an easy way to set webradio mplayer settings.. I just haven't seen it documented. If anyone has a clue on this, some enlightenment would be appreciated. -Justin -- Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
