Shoutcast not working with flash player

[mandiadi]

but winamp, media player are working fine.

I am using aacp as the encoder. Do I need to get a license key to use mp3 as encoder so I can use it in flash player?

I hope shoutcast tech can confirm and help me with this.

Appreciate it.

[jaromanda]

what do you mean by "flash player" ... by itself, flash player wont play shoutcast ... a WELL WRIITEN flash player application on the other hand can

[mandiadi]

Basically, what I want to accomplish is when a user visit my site, radio will automatically play without asking the user to download or open a file to listen to it.

Almost all flash player I tried do not work.

[jaromanda]

Originally Posted by mandiadi

Basically, what I want to accomplish is when a user visit my site, radio will automatically play without asking the user

the page better be interesting ... or they'll click away

Originally Posted by mandiadi

Almost all flash player I tried do not work.

search this forum for "thunder snow"

[mandiadi]

jaromanda,

Thank you for the reply as always. I tried thunder snow but not working also but maybe it is because of my playlist.xml config?

Can you help?

Is this correct:

<playlist>
<!-- -->
<autoPlay>true</autoPlay>
<projector>
<!-- -->
<view>BaseAudio</view>
<uri>skins/BaseSkin.swf</uri>
</projector>


<item><!-- requires socket policy server-->
<provider>Shoutcast</provider>
<description>Shoutcast over socket stream</description>
<view>BaseVideo</view>
<connection>socket</connection>
<host>99.198.118.250</host>
<port>8010</port>
<uri>/;stream.nsv</uri>
</item>

</playlist>



Of course, the ip and port have been replaced but the problem is I do not understand what is socket policy and stream.nsv ? I only want to stream audio from my shoutcast server ( sc_trans ).

Sorry as I am new with shoutcast.

Hope you can help.

[DrO]

you cannot use sc_trans to listen from. you need to setting up the player to pull from a proper DNAS server e.g. sc_serv.

-daz

[mandiadi]

I am running sc_serv then sc_trans to pull the music then player to listen.

It is working fine with media player or winamp but not when using flash player.

[DrO]

you're using a v1 DNAS which doesn't provide a flash policy socket server (as you're prior post indicates you're trying to create a socket only connection in flash). that is most likely the cause of the issue and i had thought that the thundersnow config examples showed how to do a non-socket connection type - but that's really something for smelter to answer / clarify.

-daz

[mandiadi]

Thanks for the reply daz and for staying with me :-)

I am using SHOUTcast DNAS 2.0 but to be honest, I am not familiar with thunder snow setting so I used that playlist config inside thunder snow.

I hope smelter can give me an example of config to be used to connect to my shoutcast server.

[DrO]

k, i only quickly glanced at the DNAS address in your prior post so didn't notice it's not likely to be yours.

i know it can work as i've briefly tried it out a year or so back with a v2 DNAS but i don't have anything i tried out from then around anymore (lost in a hdd failure) so i'd be looking at it fresh as well again. though really had thought there was an example showing how to do it in a non-socket manner (though things have probably changed with the configs since i last looked).

-daz

[mandiadi]

I see.

This is the available config in thunder snow playlist:


<playlist>
<!-- -->
<autoPlay>true</autoPlay>
<projector>
<!-- -->
<view>BaseAudio</view>
<uri>skins/BaseSkin.swf</uri>
</projector>

<item><!-- requires socket policy server-->
<provider>IcecastSocket</provider>
<description>icecast over socket stream, supports aacp audio and x-flv</description>
<view>BaseAudio</view>
<host>glb-stream15.streaming.init7.net</host>
<port>80</port>
<uri>/1/rsc_de/aacp_64</uri>
</item>

<item><!-- requires crossdomian file-->
<provider>Icecast</provider>
<description>Icecast over http stream</description>
<view>BaseAudio</view>
<!-- specify content, AACP or MP3 -->
<content>AACP</content>
<host>http://glb-stream15.streaming.init7.net:80</host>
<uri>/1/rsc_de/aacp_64</uri>
</item>




<item><!-- requires socket policy server-->
<provider>Shoutcast</provider>
<description>Shoutcast over socket stream</description>
<view>BaseVideo</view>
<connection>socket</connection>
<host>99.198.118.250</host>
<port>8010</port>
<uri>/;stream.nsv</uri>
</item>

<item><!-- requires crossdomian file-->
<provider>Shoutcast</provider>
<description>Shoutcast over tcp stream</description>
<view>BaseVideo</view>
<connection>tcp</connection>
<host>http://99.198.118.250:8010/;stream.nsv</host>
<uri>http://99.198.118.250:8010/;stream.nsv</uri>
</item>

</playlist>


Maybe it will refresh your mind again :-)

[DrO]

i'd assume the tcp option (last one) as unless you setup a flash policy server or are using the next v2 DNAS release, the socket-stream option generally won't work.

-daz

[mandiadi]

The last one still do not work.

I hope someone will chime in and help me :-(

[thinktink]

I've never seen any of the latest flash players work without either using a socket policy server or serving the flash SWF file through the same port the DNAS is streaming on. This is because of the (pseudo-)recent changes to flash security. You'll probably end up needing to setup a flash policy server on your server anyways so I suggest you start there. With the current version of the Transcoder you can setup a policy server but it has to be ran as the root linux account or the linux OS won't let it bind to port 843. If you're running a Windows server that won't matter (as long as you configure the firewall to allow it.) If you're self-hosting from behind a router you'll probably need to forward port 843 to the same IP address as the DNAS/Transcoder. IF you're on Windows (which I doubt) you can use my Socket Policy Server (if you can find it) for instant gratification.

[mandiadi]

I am trying to use this: http://code.google.com/p/project-thunder-snow/

But still do not work.

I guess I will just contact the developer and pay him :-)