Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Issue with live stream

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:30 +1100, James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 03:41 -0800, Paolo Casaschi wrote:
> > Rhythmbox (version on Ubuntu Edgy) fails to play the following live radio stream:
> > http://live.mediaserver.kataweb.it/radiodeejay
> > Rhythmbox tells me it's trying to connect to the stream but then it does not play the stream.
> > 
> > Other players like VLC dont have any issue with that stream and play correctly.
> 
> On my machine, the server returns different data for Rhythmbox or Totem
> than it does for VLC.
> 
> 
> First it returns an ASF playlist (identical for all players) which
> points to two other ASF URIs. If VLC tries to access those URIs, the
> server returns the correct data and the stream starts playing. If I
> access with Totem/Rhythmbox/wget/my browser, it returns the first ASF
> playlist again.
> 
> That causes totem-plparser (which Totem and Rhythmbox use to parse ASF
> playlists) to detect a recursive loop, and abort playlist.
> 
> 
> Assuming that the same happens for other people, the problem is that the
> server is trying to be "smart" and breaking it for clients it doesn't
> know about.

I believe that this is one of those "HTTP loops" Windows Media Servers
do. I just tried it, and it seems to work just fine:
$ ./test-parser http://live.mediaserver.kataweb.it/radiodeejay

###################### parsing ################

added URI 'mmsh://live.mediaserver.kataweb.it/radiodeejay?MSWMExt=.asf'

And playing the mmsh URL works.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>