Re: xmms and xiph and live365

[Douglas Hitchcock]

hmm..  

could you try this command?  when I do this

xmms "http://www.kqlz.org/streams/ogg1.pls";

I get xmms, a "Play files" dialog, and the message "Directory
unreadable: No such file or directory"  That's the exact same thing
that happens when I double click on it streamtuner too.

if I say

wget "http://www.kqlz.org/streams/ogg1.pls";
xmms ogg1.pls

then that works....

If that first way works for you, then I have a bum xmms I guess!  I
just assumed that XMMS didn't take URLs because of the M3U thing (I
thought maybe was some sort of work around) and the gnome MIME thing
for it says X Multimedia System (No URIs)  I don't really know WHAT
that means, but it seemed suspicous :)

doug





On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:51:19 +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:51:31 -0500
> Douglas Hitchcock <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I've been fiddling with this for some time now trying to understand...
> >
> > I use XMMS for my streamer, xmms %q on both streams and m3us...  now
> > from my observation, when I double click on a shoutcast stream, it
> > downloads the pls and makes it into an m3u file in the /tmp directory,
> > and then gives that file to xmms.  But it appears not to do the same
> > for Xiph and Live365,  I'm assuming those cases it's just giving the
> > url straight to xmms http://whatever, which doesn't work, which also
> > annoys me about XMMS, but I digress.
> >
> > So my questions are, why do they act differently?  How can I get xiph
> > and live365 to go into xmms properly?  If I can't, what else can I
> > use?  I tried rhythmbox, which worked for the Xiph fine, and the
> > Live365 started to buffer but then it choked on the MP3Pro.  I really
> > don't care for  rhythmbox anyway, I like streamtuner + xmms :-/
> 
> They act differently because SHOUTcast sends a list of URLs whereas
> Live365 and Xiph just send a single URL.
> 
> There is no problem with passing an URL rather than a file to XMMS, it
> should handle it fine. And it indeed handles it fine here (XMMS
> 1.2.10).
> 
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> Jean-Yves Lefort
> 
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> http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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