[Icecast] WMP mp3 stream trouble

[Karl Heyes]

Bob wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I made a big effort to provide an mp3 stream on my site to please the
> unenlightened masses, and then I see in my logs that it doesn't work
> in Windows Media Player.  Doh!  There's no Windows machine around to
> test on so if anyone could help me out, I'd be very grateful.  I
> couldn't find anything in the list's archive or on the web in general,
> sorry.
> 
> Details:
> 
> The mp3 files are made from raw PCM data with
>   lame --silent -r -x -s 44.1 -f -V 6 --vbr-new file.pcm file.mp3
> 
> The mp3 files are piped to ezstream 'stdin' and out to the web with
> icecast.  The files are short (7 seconds) and are piped over and over
> again.
> 
> It works fine with iTunes, RealPlayer, Winamp5.x, VLC, Whamb, but not WMP!
> Here's a typical failed connection from the icecast access log

I don't know what is different about reading from network vs file, but 
VBR streams in WMP just don't work, although I understand that from file 
it's ok. CBR should be fine.

karl.