Linux RealAudio streaming

[Colin Burn-Murdoch]

> run the server with --d_source as a command-line option. This will give you the
> results of the server attempting to play this URL. It will confirm whether or
> nto is has found vsound, for example. You might want to try using $vsound$ in
> the convert.conf as well, so that the server can look using its normal search
> routines.

ok, i get:

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at Slim/Player/Source.pm line 723.
2004-01-16 22:13:57.5418 openSong: getting duration , size , and offset for rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra
2004-01-16 22:13:57.5424 openSong: not bothering opening file with zero size or duration

zero size? does it think this because it doesn't get data immediately?

btw. thanks for the $prog$ tip, i thought those were variables of some sort, yet couldn't find where they were set.

[kdf]

Quoting Colin Burn-Murdoch <colin (AT) aranion (DOT) com>:

> > run the server with --d_source as a command-line option. This will give
> you the
> > results of the server attempting to play this URL. It will confirm whether
> or
> > nto is has found vsound, for example. You might want to try using $vsound$
> in
> > the convert.conf as well, so that the server can look using its normal
> search
> > routines.
>
> ok, i get:
>
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> Slim/Player/Source.pm line 723.
> 2004-01-16 22:13:57.5418 openSong: getting duration , size , and offset for
> rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra
> 2004-01-16 22:13:57.5424 openSong: not bothering opening file with zero size
> or duration
>
> zero size? does it think this because it doesn't get data immediately?
well, would seem to indicate that is the case. However, I would expect a stream
to not have a known size at the start. I seem to recall this being discussed
recently, but I'm the wrong person to have any details on that. You can at
least debug the rest of your stream work by commenting out that test.

>
> btw. thanks for the $prog$ tip, i thought those were variables of some sort,
> yet couldn't find where they were set.

Look in Source::openSong. You'll find the check for duration that you need to
block, and the $command checks.

-kdf