Flac - Sep 2004 - [Flac-users] Help with Streaming FLAC via httpd

> Right now none of the plugins can handle streaming, only because
> I don't really know how to do it.
Over the weekend I wrote some code for the xmms plugin to handle http
streaming. It seems to work okay. I assume you're not interested in this
until after 1.0.5?

,steven.

Using the 1.0.4 versions of the FLAC decoder plugin for both
XMMS (under Linux and FreeBSD) and WinAMP (under Win2k and WinXP)
I can't get streaming to work from a web server.

Has anyone actually done it or seen it done?  If so, do you
have a URL I can look at?

I have tried setting my web server's MIME type for served flac
files to both audio/flac and audio/x-flac.  I am not using a
web browser, I am simply opening the URL directly from within
XMMS or WinAMP, so the question of web browser configuration
is eliminated.

With XMMS, the player just repeatedly tries to pre-buffer data
but never actually plays any sound.  With WinAMP, I get an error
dialog that says "invalid/missing FLAC metadata" when I try to
add the URL to my playlist.

My guess is that the plugin only knows how to read the mandatory
STREAMINFO metadata block from a filesystem and fails when the
data is streaming in via a TCP socket.

Any help would be appreciated.

-Mark

--- Mark Rudholm <rudholm@hyperreal.org> wrote:
> Using the 1.0.4 versions of the FLAC decoder plugin for both
> XMMS (under Linux and FreeBSD) and WinAMP (under Win2k and WinXP)
> I can't get streaming to work from a web server.
> 
> Has anyone actually done it or seen it done?  If so, do you
> have a URL I can look at?
> 
> I have tried setting my web server's MIME type for served flac
> files to both audio/flac and audio/x-flac.  I am not using a
> web browser, I am simply opening the URL directly from within
> XMMS or WinAMP, so the question of web browser configuration
> is eliminated.
> 
> With XMMS, the player just repeatedly tries to pre-buffer data
> but never actually plays any sound.  With WinAMP, I get an error
> dialog that says "invalid/missing FLAC metadata" when I try to
> add the URL to my playlist.
> 
> My guess is that the plugin only knows how to read the mandatory
> STREAMINFO metadata block from a filesystem and fails when the
> data is streaming in via a TCP socket.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
Right now none of the plugins can handle streaming, only because
I don't really know how to do it.  The plugins first check for
STREAMINFO as a matter of course to determine if the file is
valid, but the decoders themselves don't really need it; you
should be able to feed them data and they will sync up auto-
matically.

Josh


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