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

> 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.

jack.

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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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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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