[Vorbis] icecast

[Oscar Sundbom]

Oscar Sundbom skrev:
> Steve skrev:
>> In Notepad, I have created a file named "learning.m3u".
>> I added this entry: "/learning.ogg".
>> I uploaded to the same folder on my server where "learning.ogg" is.
>> I changed the link on my web page to http://mydomain.com/learning.m3u.
>> Clicking on the link opens Winamp with "LEARNING" as the title, but 
>> nothing plays.
>>  
>> Any comments?
>
> I guess you should have the entry as http://mydomain.com/learning.ogg 
> <http://mydomain.com/learning.m3u>
> Otherwise the application has no idea where to look. (Well, I guess it 
> looks at the root of your drive)
>
> Regards
> Oscar

Ehm. My mail app apparently wanted to crap up the URL above.
It's supposed to be _only_:
http://mydomain.com/learning.ogg

Regards,
Oscar

>
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     *From:* Steve <mailto:srussell at innernet.net>
>>     *To:* Vorbis at xiph.org <mailto:Vorbis at xiph.org>
>>     *Sent:* Sunday, April 29, 2007 1:20 PM
>>     *Subject:* Re: [Vorbis] icecast
>>
>>     Thank you, gentlemen, very much!  Now I will have to look into how
>>     to generate such a playlist, a subject I'm not overly familiar with.
>>
>>         ----- Original Message -----
>>         *From:* Oscar Sundbom <mailto:oscar.sundbom at swipnet.se>
>>         *To:* Steve <mailto:srussell at innernet.net>
>>         *Cc:* Vorbis at xiph.org <mailto:Vorbis at xiph.org>
>>         *Sent:* Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:57 PM
>>         *Subject:* Re: [Vorbis] icecast
>>
>>         Steve skrev:
>>         > (Yes, I can reduce my font size.) Thanks for the great
>>         reply. I could
>>         > use just a little further clarification, please.  I program
>>         with
>>         > various softwares, so I'm not inexperienced. I do not 
>> prefer to
>>         > require my site visitors to open/save files.  I would prefer
>>         to stream
>>         > transparently for those who have an appropriate player.  These
>>         > clips range from 2 to 7 megs.  So trying to put together
>>         what you and
>>         > I have written, would you perhaps say that Icecast would be
>>         desirable
>>         > for my purposes and would probably be fairly easy for me to
>>         set up,
>>         > and that it would not require anything but a compatible
>>         player for my
>>         > visitors?
>>
>>         If you want to stream individual clips, Icecast is not for
>>         you. Your web
>>         server will do. The most usual way of getting an external
>>         player to play
>>         the clip streaming, instead of downloading it first, is to
>>         create a
>>         playlist file (possibly generated on the fly) for each clip.
>>         This would
>>         then be downloaded, opened by the external player, which then
>>         streams
>>         the clip from your
>>         web server.
>>
>>         Icecast is for live streaming of audio and would not improve 
>> your
>>         situation of your delivering on-demand clips. For streaming
>>         with an external player, it uses the same method as I outlined
>>         above and
>>         acts as a web server that only transfers the audio
>>         at the same rate it is created by the live feed.
>>
>>         Regards,
>>         Oscar
>>
>>         >     ----- Original Message -----
>>         >     *From:* Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <mailto:justivo at gmail.com>
>>         >     *To:* Vorbis at xiph.org <mailto:Vorbis at xiph.org>
>>         <mailto:Vorbis at xiph.org>
>>         >     *Sent:* Sunday, April 29, 2007 12:22 PM
>>         >     *Subject:* Re: [Vorbis] icecast
>>         >
>>         >     Hello Steve,
>>         >
>>         >     If all you need is your users to download files to play
>>         them locally,
>>         >     then Icecast is not something you need.  Icecast is for
>>         streaming.  If
>>         >     you had an online radio it would be very useful to you,
>>         though.
>>         >
>>         >     Furthermore, Icecast is not easy to setup for the
>>         inexperienced
>>         >     computer-user, albeit after setting up correctly, you
>>         probably
>>         >     wouldn't have a need to touch it again ever.  The 
>> process is
>>         >     transparent for the users, though.  They only need to
>>         open the
>>         >     streaming file on winamp or any other audio player with
>>         stream support
>>         >     and that's it.
>>         >
>>         >     Can I ask you a favor?  Would you reduce the font size
>>         on your future
>>         >     messages?  Or disable HTML e-mail completely if that
>>         works out better
>>         >     for you.  It's somewhat annoying.
>>         >
>>         >     -Ivo
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