[icecast] Client Woes

[harvey smith]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Brian Hurley wrote:

> Why m3u vs. pls?
>
> Brian

I tryed them both and .m3u's work in more clients. pls's seem like a
better idea (ie. not just tied to mp3's) but they don't seem to work
as consitantly.

Harvey

>
> ----- 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
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>
> > 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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