Re: xmms and xiph and live365

[Douglas Hitchcock]

I tried it at home on my Gentoo system and the same thing happens. 
Basically, the best question is, how can I double click on a Xiph /
Live365 and have it play in XMMS, because xmms %q is just doing the
open dialog thing here on my FC2 and at home on my Gentoo.  I don't
really care about XMMS command line, I just want streamtuner to work,
I was just investigating to hopefully figure out what the problem in
streamtuner was :)

Thanks

doug 

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:15:20 -0500, Douglas Hitchcock
<address@hidden> wrote:
> hmm..
> 
> could you try this command?  when I do this
> 
> xmms "http://www.kqlz.org/streams/ogg1.pls";
> 
> I get xmms, a "Play files" dialog, and the message "Directory
> unreadable: No such file or directory"  That's the exact same thing
> that happens when I double click on it streamtuner too.
> 
> if I say
> 
> wget "http://www.kqlz.org/streams/ogg1.pls";
> xmms ogg1.pls
> 
> then that works....
> 
> If that first way works for you, then I have a bum xmms I guess!  I
> just assumed that XMMS didn't take URLs because of the M3U thing (I
> thought maybe was some sort of work around) and the gnome MIME thing
> for it says X Multimedia System (No URIs)  I don't really know WHAT
> that means, but it seemed suspicous :)
> 
> doug
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 23:51:19 +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:51:31 -0500
> > Douglas Hitchcock <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been fiddling with this for some time now trying to understand...
> > >
> > > I use XMMS for my streamer, xmms %q on both streams and m3us...  now
> > > from my observation, when I double click on a shoutcast stream, it
> > > downloads the pls and makes it into an m3u file in the /tmp directory,
> > > and then gives that file to xmms.  But it appears not to do the same
> > > for Xiph and Live365,  I'm assuming those cases it's just giving the
> > > url straight to xmms http://whatever, which doesn't work, which also
> > > annoys me about XMMS, but I digress.
> > >
> > > So my questions are, why do they act differently?  How can I get xiph
> > > and live365 to go into xmms properly?  If I can't, what else can I
> > > use?  I tried rhythmbox, which worked for the Xiph fine, and the
> > > Live365 started to buffer but then it choked on the MP3Pro.  I really
> > > don't care for  rhythmbox anyway, I like streamtuner + xmms :-/
> >
> > They act differently because SHOUTcast sends a list of URLs whereas
> > Live365 and Xiph just send a single URL.
> >
> > There is no problem with passing an URL rather than a file to XMMS, it
> > should handle it fine. And it indeed handles it fine here (XMMS
> > 1.2.10).
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Yves Lefort
> >
> > address@hidden
> > http://lefort.be.eu.org/
> >
> >
> >
>