[icecast] Client Woes

[Brian Hurley]

Why m3u vs. pls?

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "harvey smith" <harvey at buskers.org>
To: <icecast at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [icecast] Client Woes

> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jack Moffitt wrote:
>
> > The way to prevetn this download, or rather to work around it, is to use
> > a small intermediate playlist file.  In order to get maximum client
> > support, m3u files are best.  Just make an m3u file called  stream.m3u
> > and in it put:
> >
> > http://www.RainbowRadio.com:8000/club.mp3
> >
> > Then point your users to that file.  Which will quickly download, get
> > sent to the player registered for M3u's, and then the player will
> > connect and start to stream that file.
>
> It also help's alot to associate the m3u to the correct mime type on
> the server side. In Apache would you place:
>
>    AddType audio/x-mpegurl .m3u
>
> In your httpd.conf file. This will make it work even in RealPlayer
> (ie, I never had to use .ram files for mp3s)
>
> harvey
>
> >
> > jack.
> >
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