Jack Moffitt
2004-Aug-06 14:22 UTC
[icecast] 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: 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. > > --- >8 ---- > List archives: xiph.org/archives > icecast project homepage: icecast.org > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' > containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.--- >8 ---- List archives: xiph.org/archives icecast project homepage: icecast.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Steve Glines
2004-Aug-06 14:22 UTC
[icecast] yp.icecast.org || when does your stream come into the db?
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: > > your.server.com:8000/mymountHow 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 --- >8 ---- List archives: xiph.org/archives icecast project homepage: icecast.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Jack Moffitt
2004-Aug-06 14:22 UTC
[icecast] yp.icecast.org || when does your stream come into the db?
> 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: server.com:8000 gives you no indication of which of the possibly multiple streams you really want? You need the extra information. jack. --- >8 ---- List archives: xiph.org/archives icecast project homepage: icecast.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'icecast-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.