Icecast - Aug 2004 - gen-mpegurl.m3u source/making a clean weblink to broadcast

Hi guys.  I've been running icecast for awhile, and just
upgraded to the latest version.  Everything works fine,
nice work. 

Here's the deal, I'm still not sure how to make a clean
link to my broadcast.  On the icecast.org site, it calls
a cgi-bin file called 'gen-mpegurl.m3u.'  This always
stars up my broadcast nicely.

Is there anyway to get the source code to gen-mpegurl.m3u,
so I could do this from my website without needing to
use an offsite link.   Or what is needed to launch a
streaming mp3 file from, you know, realaudio, wmp and
other players out there.  

(For me, winamp just plays the stream fine, but linking
directly from the new realone player or windows media
player just causes the program to endlessly download.)

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on Thursday 28 March 2002 22:48, icecast@chile.junglevision.com
wrote:
> Hi guys.  I've been running icecast for awhile, and just
> upgraded to the latest version.  Everything works fine,
> nice work.
>
> Here's the deal, I'm still not sure how to make a clean
> link to my broadcast.  On the icecast.org site, it calls
> a cgi-bin file called 'gen-mpegurl.m3u.'  This always
> stars up my broadcast nicely.
>
> Is there anyway to get the source code to gen-mpegurl.m3u,
> so I could do this from my website without needing to
> use an offsite link.   Or what is needed to launch a
> streaming mp3 file from, you know, realaudio, wmp and
> other players out there.
>
> (For me, winamp just plays the stream fine, but linking
> directly from the new realone player or windows media
> player just causes the program to endlessly download.)
<p>i don't have the answer to this, but i'd really love to.

if i get enough info, i'd be willing to put together a FAQ on this aspect of
getting icecast up and running ("the final piece of the puzzle"),
since it
doesn't seem to be documented.

-satchel

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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:02:14PM -0500, satchel loftis
wrote:
> > Here's the deal, I'm still not sure how to make a clean
> > link to my broadcast.  On the icecast.org site, it calls
> > a cgi-bin file called 'gen-mpegurl.m3u.'  This always
> > stars up my broadcast nicely.
> >
> > Is there anyway to get the source code to gen-mpegurl.m3u,
> > so I could do this from my website without needing to
> > use an offsite link.
> 
> i don't have the answer to this, but i'd really love to.
> 
> if i get enough info, i'd be willing to put together a FAQ on this
aspect of
> getting icecast up and running ("the final piece of the puzzle"),
since it
> doesn't seem to be documented.
to make a stream startup with a simple click you need to:

- be sure the mime-type "audio/x-mpegurl" exists for your webserver
and
  points to the .m3u extension
- put the url of your stream (i.e. http://mysrv.org:8000/live) into a
  .m3u file, as a single line newline terminated
- link to that .m3u file into your html page with a normal <a href> tag

btw i think a FAQ about audio-streaming would be really needed, if you
are going to do it i'd help as i can.


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