[icecast-dev] Hot Topic: Icecast in Macromedia Flash

Macsym
Fri, 06 Aug 2004 14:57:35 -0000

Hi Moritz,

I didn't know so many people in the Icecast-Dev list were running Linux PPC!

Anyway, I understand that you guys don't have the time to help me with that
because you wouldn't be able to run the flash player anyway! Because of
that, I think I will send the topic to the regular Icecast mailing list
(where I might find more people running Linux, Mac OS or Windows).

There are still some kinds of information I can only get from the dev list:

-Does anybody know where I can find a document that explains the changes in
the core architecture between Icecast1 and Icecast2 (Flash was working with
Icecast1)?

-Does Icecast need to receive some kinds of headers from the player before
sending the stream? If yes, what are these headers?

-Can somebody translate me this access log line:
192.168.0.3 - - [27/Nov/2003:04:42:58 Romance Standard Time] "GET /mystream
HTTP/1.1" 200 328981 "(null)" "-" 13712464

What is "200 328981", "(null)" and "-"?

Thanks in advance,

MAX
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Subject: Re: [icecast-dev] Hot Topic: Icecast in Macromedia Flash

Macsym wrote:
> I am trying to build an mp3 player in Macromedia Flash that would work
with
> Icecast. Using Flash as a mp3 player instead of Winamp, XMMS,. could
> democratize Icecast because Flash is cross-platform/cross-browser, it is
> installed on almost every computer connected to the internet and it will
be
> embedded into a webpage.

You should read the Flash Player's EULA ... I, for example, am not
allowed to install or even use the flashplugin as an OpenBSD user on
most of my computers. (One may only use it on Windows, MacOS, Linux and
Solaris.) On a side note, I happen to know that the plugin would
actually work in Linux emulation on OpenBSD... of course, nobody
officially ever tried that.

Not very interesting. That, and what Jack wrote about its lack of Ogg
support make Flash simply the wrong tool.

Moritz