• Registered: 2011-10-26
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Topic: Playing streams with btplay / control panel events not working

I would like to implement a simple script to play audio streams on my chumby one.

I already know that there are two possible options to accomplish this: using btplay or using the control panel events.

So here's the problem:
Using MyStreams, I'm using e.g. the following URL to play my favorite radio station: http://streams.br-online.de/bayern3_1.m3u MyStreams is handling this URL perfectly. However, if I'm using 

btplay http://streams.br-online.de/bayern3_1.m3u


nothing happens. Same for

echo "<event type=\"UserPlayer\" value=\"play\" comment=\" http://streams.br-online.de/bayern3_1.m3u\"/>" > /tmp/flashplayer.event^
chumbyflashplayer.x -F1

If I'm downloading the m3u-file manually, it has the following content:

http://gffstream.ic.llnwd.net/stream/gffstream_w3b
http://gffstream.ic.llnwd.net/stream/gffstream_w3a

If I now use btplay or the control panel events with the first URL in the m3u-file, the audio stream from the radio station starts playing smile. However, it stops playing after a few seconds sad.

Does anybody has any idea how I could start this playlist from the command line? What is MyStreams doing different than these commands?

Thanks for your help,
Holger

  • Duane
  • Duane
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  • Registered: 2006-08-24
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Re: Playing streams with btplay / control panel events not working

btplay does not take playlists as inputs, only streams.  The "My Streams" music source downloads and parses the playlist before it sends it the URLs of the actual streams to btplay.

That means that you'll have to do something similar.

What happens if you send the second URL in the m3u file to btplay?

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