[mythtv-users] Problem with streaming music in mythweb

Michael PARKER michael.parker at st.com
Thu Jul 21 07:24:47 UTC 2011



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of
> Adam Jimerson
> Sent: 21 July 2011 01:41
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Problem with streaming music in mythweb
> 
> On Wednesday 20 July 2011 5:52:54 PM Michael PARKER wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> > > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Adam Jimerson
> > > Sent: 20 July 2011 01:45
> > > To: Discussion about MythTV
> > > Subject: [mythtv-users] Problem with streaming music in mythweb
> > >
> > > I am having problems getting music to stream via Mythweb, I have the
> > > data
> > > directory linked to where my music is and can see my music in the
> > > interface. When I build a playlist and download the .m3u file and open
> > > it in VLC I can see it jump through the songs in the playlist but none
> > > of them actually play.  I have tried switching from Digest to Basic
> > > auth, I have tried changing
> > >
> > > <LocationMatch .*/music/stream.php>
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > > <LocationMatch .*/music/stream*>
> > >
> > > In mythweb's Streaming options I have set "Force HTTP for streams"
> > > "Force
> > > HTTP/HTTPS port for streams" to 8080 (same as mythweb), and set "Embed
> > > HTTP basic auth user name/password into stream urls" and this still is
> > > happening.
> > >
> > > Anything I am over looking?
> >
> > You're not connecting to MythWeb over HTTPS, are you?
> >
> > I have v.similar problems in accessing music over MythWeb but have always
> > been under the impression that VLC cannot stream from a HTTPS server....
> >
> > If I look inside the *.m3u playlist and paste one of the URLs into my
> > browser, I can download the *.wma file from my BE, but it won't stream in
> > VLC.
> >
> > HTH, Mike
> 
> No everything is through HTTP, and I the same thing happens to me if I view
> the playlist.m3u file I can copy and paste one of the url's into my browser and
> can download the mp3/wma/ogg file but it won't stream in VLC nor play in
> browser using the Dev version of Chrome or Firefox 5.
> 
> Looking at the "steam" file I see an error about how my Music direcotry is not
> in PHP's open_basedir list.  After adding it and restarting Apache streaming
> music works.  Now my next step is to get video steaming to work

Could you elaborate re. your Music directory not being in PHP's open_basedir list? 

I'm not especially familiar with the inner workings of Apache and would like to learn more about what you did to get music streaming working.



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