Hi - I've heard that Icecast provides a fake "playlist file" along the lines of http://blahblah:8000/listen.m3u or http://blahblah:8000/playlist.pls because Quicktime can't seem to handle the stream without a playlist file to wrap it up. (There may be other reasons.) However, I can't seem to find any documentation about this, and guessing various URLs on my icecast2.0.1 port comes up with nothing. Is there such a thing? I can't get my "raw" http://blahblah:8000 stream to open in Quicktime... Perhaps there's a config setting that's relevant here? Thanks Dan -- http://www.mcld.co.uk
I think I've answered my own question - I've got a mountpoint at /flatfour.mp3 and it looks like /flatfour.mp3.m3u automatically serves up a playlist file. However, Quicktime player still refuses to handle it properly. I had to craft my own .pls file for Quicktime to understand, which seems a shame! Thanks anyway, Dan On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:24:18 +0000, Dan Stowell <danstowell@gmail.com> wrote:> Hi - I've heard that Icecast provides a fake "playlist file" along the lines of > > http://blahblah:8000/listen.m3u > or > http://blahblah:8000/playlist.pls > > because Quicktime can't seem to handle the stream without a playlist > file to wrap it up. (There may be other reasons.) However, I can't > seem to find any documentation about this, and guessing various URLs > on my icecast2.0.1 port comes up with nothing. > > Is there such a thing? I can't get my "raw" http://blahblah:8000 > stream to open in Quicktime... Perhaps there's a config setting that's > relevant here? > > Thanks > Dan
Normally you don't put an extention in a mountpoint it would be /flatfour and /flatfour.m3u rather then /flatfour.mp3 and /flatfour.mp3.m3u ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Stowell" <danstowell@gmail.com> To: <> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:45 PM Subject: [Icecast] Re: Serving a playlist.pls / listen.m3u file>I think I've answered my own question - I've got a mountpoint at > /flatfour.mp3 and it looks like /flatfour.mp3.m3u automatically serves > up a playlist file. > > However, Quicktime player still refuses to handle it properly. I had > to craft my own .pls file for Quicktime to understand, which seems a > shame! > > Thanks anyway, > Dan > > > > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:24:18 +0000, Dan Stowell <danstowell@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi - I've heard that Icecast provides a fake "playlist file" along the >> lines of >> >> http://blahblah:8000/listen.m3u >> or >> http://blahblah:8000/playlist.pls >> >> because Quicktime can't seem to handle the stream without a playlist >> file to wrap it up. (There may be other reasons.) However, I can't >> seem to find any documentation about this, and guessing various URLs >> on my icecast2.0.1 port comes up with nothing. >> >> Is there such a thing? I can't get my "raw" http://blahblah:8000 >> stream to open in Quicktime... Perhaps there's a config setting that's >> relevant here? >> >> Thanks >> Dan > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >