[mythtv] mythradio?

John Hurliman jhurliman at myrealbox.com
Wed Feb 26 18:22:16 EST 2003


Isaac Richards wrote:

>>Personally, I'm working on a new handler for MythMusic that can play
>>streaming MP3.
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>Should be fairly easy to do, at least with http streams -- Qt already has a 
>fairly decent http client code, so you just need to write a small wrapper 
>around that to translate it into something that the existing decoders 
>understand.  Would have to handle the crap that shoutcast streams inject in 
>the middle of the audio data, but that's not terribly difficult.  Multicast 
>streams would be a bit more difficult, but there's existing libraries (in c++ 
>even, I believe) that can be used for that.
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I believe mplayer supports Shoutcast streams and misc. streaming 
formats. Would it be possible to use mplayer for webradio and fm radio? 
I'm very interested in the MythRadio project myself and would be willing 
to donate coding time to it.



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