Icecast - Aug 2004 - yp.icecast.org || when does your stream come into the db?

they are the same for practical purposes, but I believe i started
pushing m3u because it was better supported, or less application fought
over it, or something.  it's probably different today, but i still use
m3u.

M3U is simpler than pls.  just a file/url per line, that's it.

for a sstream a pls file would look like:

http://your.server.com:8000/mymount

and that's it.

jack.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:25:56PM -0400, Steve Glines
wrote:
> I tried a pls file and it appears to work. What's the difference (in
> practical terms) and where do I find the documentation on M3U files?
> 
> Thanks
> SG
> 
> Jack Moffitt wrote:
> > 
> > > When I try the URL above my system attempts to down
> > > load a 50 MB file. It isn't streaming. I have the same
> > > problem with my own system. What are we doing wrong?
> > 
> > It _is_ streaming, you just aren't accessing it right.
> > 
> > You can't just point your browser to a stream.  The browser will
always
> > download the content, and then pass it off to the helper application.
> > If that content is a stream, it will just download forever.
> > 
> > You need to create some 'pointer' file, generally an m3u file,
that
> > points to your stream.  The browser downloads the m3u, passes it to
your
> > client, and that starts streaming the real data.
> 
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Jack Moffitt wrote:
> 
> they are the same for practical purposes, but I believe i started
> pushing m3u because it was better supported, or less application fought
> over it, or something.  it's probably different today, but i still use
> m3u.
> 
> M3U is simpler than pls.  just a file/url per line, that's it.
> 
> for a sstream a pls file would look like:
> 
> http://your.server.com:8000/mymount
How do you define the mount points? Are they a directory within
/usr/share/icecast that contain an index.pls file for example?

Forgive me but the documentation appears quite sparse here.

Thanks 
SG

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> How do you define the mount points? Are they a directory within
> /usr/share/icecast that contain an index.pls file for example?
> 
> Forgive me but the documentation appears quite sparse here.
A mountpiont is a fragment of a URL (often referred to as a URI) like
'/stream1' or '/my_cool_stuff/stream.ogg'

You tell shout, ices, or whatever what mountpoint to use.  It's
arbitrary what you call it.

Then the client requests that mountpoint, thus getting the stream.

It's like making a file called index.html which you stick in the webroot
diretory.  It's then accesible as /index.html.  Except hat in icecast,
you use shout or ices to "make something accessible" and the
mountpoint
just becomes an artitrary moniker.

it's necessary to distinguish different streams this way, as just
connecting to:

http://server.com:8000

gives you no indication of which of the possibly multiple streams you
really want?  You need the extra information.

jack.

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