[mythtv-users] Re:Developer suggestion for MythInternetRadio?

[Alan Snyder]

> > takes up way too much of my time for me to work on
this 
> right now. I 
> > started a while back trying to take the streaming
MP3 code from the 
> > mpg123 xmms plugin and integrate it, but never
finished ;(.
> 
> I just took a look at the mpg123 code for streaming,
it looks 
> fairly straightforward to implement, it would
probably only 
> take a few days to add to mythmusic don't you think?
> 
> I also noticed that in mythmusic it looks like the
beginnings 
> of such functionality in the streaminput.cpp file. 
Couldn't 
> this be modified to connect properly to the icecast
type 
> servers for radio streaming?

Various radio stations use various formats,
including wmp9 and ra.  I believe that aplay
plays them all.  I have two wmp format public
stations set up (note: aplay's auto-detection
of station format doesn't always work but
stations play fine if you determine which
codec to specify on the command line).

Does mplayer play all these formats as well?
Is implementation as simple as implementing
a radio link capability within mythmusic? 
You couldn't use straight url's if auto format
detection doesn't work reliably, but you
could use

http://station.org/ra/live.ram?!mpargs=xxx

and have mythmusic strip off everything from
?!mpargs= and pass them to mplayer (or aplay).


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