[mythtv-users] Icecast stream and Mythmusic

[Paul Harrison]

On 22/09/13 17:10, Rajil Saraswat wrote:
>> I think currently if you need to pass a user and password you will need to
>> create either a pls or m3u file since while the player supports playback
>> direct from http urls only the ice/shoutcast decoder handler knows what to
>> do with the user and password.
>>
>> Paul H.
>> _______________________________________________
> I created an m3u file with the username and password,
>
> #cat /var/www/localhost/htdocs/high.ogg.m3u
> http://user:pass@192.168.1.111:8000/high.ogg
>
> Mythfrontend failed to play the stream with error
>
> 2013-09-22 21:34:14.873667 E  Failed to mount /dev/sr0.
> 2013-09-22 21:34:25.781942 I  AOBase: Opening audio device
> 'surround71:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0' ch 6(2) sr 44100 sf signed 32 bit reenc
> 0
> 2013-09-22 21:34:25.783609 E  ALSA: Requested 500000us got 61678 buffer time
> 2013-09-22 21:34:25.794688 E  ALSA: Try to manually increase audio
> buffer with: echo 576 | sudo tee
> /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/prealloc
> 2013-09-22 21:34:26.859457 N  Suspending idle timer
> 2013-09-22 21:34:27.765932 E  Could not open file (stream)
> 2013-09-22 21:34:27.765945 E  AV decoder. Error: -541478725
> 2013-09-22 21:34:27.766042 E  Decoder Error: Could not open file  (stream)
> AV decoder. Error: -541478725
>
> Mplayer plays the stream fine using
> #mplayer -playlist http://localhost:8015/high.ogg.m3u
>
> The webserver is running on port 8015. Are ogg streams supported?
>
> Thanks
>

I just tried another ogg stream and it looks like ogg playback got 
broken probably by one of the ffmpeg resyncs :( That error (-541478725) 
is AVERROR_EOF which means the decoder thinks we reached the end of file 
so basically it run out of data while trying to open the stream which is 
odd.

Paul H.