Beta 2.09 of streamer2

[D00kie]

Hi everybody!

   I made some pretty bold changes to Streamer2, the MP3/Shoutcast player to make it work on UAE and better with MAS and Flipper cards. Can some brave souls (esp. people with MPEG cards!) check it out and tell me if it works?

   You could try 'check for updates', but it'll probably crash. :-)

http://www.tigger1.demon.co.uk/amiga/streamer.lha

Thanks!

[D00kie]

Wow!

   0 posts? I guess you can forget about 2.10. Cor! I'm talking to myself again...

[Dragster]

Hi! Thanks for your effort! I have a delfina flipper and I'll give it a try later today

Cheers!

D.

[scholle]

Works O.K. here, but it would be good to get mpega.library
usable too, for ppc support.

Greetings,

Scholle

[blobrana]

Hehe!

Your doing a great job with streamer2!

[MickJT]

I don't get it. Streamer never works here.. And I tried 2.09 before it was even announced (By some stange luck I decided to click on the URL in my hotlist and noticed there was an updated version not even 1 day old).

It just crashes, not with software failure windows, but you just can't quit the program.

I've NEVER got it successfully working.

[blobrana]

@MickJT
using the correct, and configured, mpega.library?

Hum,
i just copied this from a website...


Ibrowse or voyager can be configured to play these sounds through mime types. For Ibrowse you need to open the `General/Ext Viewers`.
A quick way to to setup your amiga browser to play most audio types is to creat a mime types.

`Streamer` used as a browser plug-in. All you need to do to copy the correct version of `MPEGA`(mpega.library) and `Streamer` to your C: drawer.
The settings in MPEGA`s config file, S:MPEGA.CFG may have to be tweaked.
For a shoutcast mime type, type this!:

Type: AUDIO
Subtype: X-SCPLS
Extensions: pls mpu m3u
Program: c:streamer
Arguments: "%f" "%p"

For Aweb it you will have to chamge "%p" to "%n"
Streamer will allow you to stop, pause and record the stream with it`s tiny strip window.

A 68k processor will be pushed to handle the mpeg streams, and the browser preformance will be reduced; it may be wise to set MPEGAs configuration settings to the lowest values first...

[D00kie]

XL-ent!

   The 'internal' setting uses mpega.library, so if there is a PPC mpega.library it should work. I can't test it, though!

   I think the last post is referring to an age-old version that wasn't font-sensitive (re: the tiny window!) The args have changed to support ReadArgs too, so 'streamer %f...' doesn't work. It should be 'Streamer2 FILE=%f...' Yes, I was too lazy to work on b-wards comaptability!

   Also, since 1.x just started mpega (the command-line exe that plays a file using mpega.library), setting mpega.cfg helped reduce the CPU load. All of those options are directly in the preferences of Streamer2 as it's got its' own player now.

   If it's not quitting properly, I'll have a look at the stop-button code. It's a bit more complicated now because it launches another process. There used to be a 'streamer net process' and a 'streamer timer process' and now there's also a 'streamer HTTP process' because I've isolated the HTTP client from the rest of the code to support authentication and some other stuff. The Stop button and CTRL-C and an HTTP end-of-file have to stop all three processes!

   To make a long story short.

[MickJT]

There's 6 executables in the archive, 3 of them in streamer/ directory are the same size.

Looks like a mistake to me

... and I wasn't using FILE=, I will try that now

[Edit] Great.. I started it without arguments, just double clicked on the icon after setting the default tool to streamer2.020 (the one in the streamer/ directory), I went to Preferences, mucked around, then clicked "Cancel", and the whole screen went, fk'd, and rebooted.

[Edit2] I extracted the archive to Ram Disk: again, pointed IBrowse's x-scpls MIME type to streamer2.020 (not the one in the streamer directory), with FILE=%f as the args. .. then clicked on a link on yp.shoutcast.com, streamer loads up (by the way it doesn't force the screen to change to the pubscreen that streamer is running on), then it eats 16 or more meg of memory, and 100% cpu and sits there doing nothing. In my opinion, streamer has always been a poorly written program from day 1. Since the first version, to this latest version, i've never ever ever got it to work properly.

[D00kie]

Yep.

  Looks like I need to give the LHA manual a good hard read. r is for replace, kiddies!

  The server you're using probably threw something that causes a buffer overflow. Have you got the URL of the stream you're visiting?

Thanks 4 the help!

Brian

[D00kie]

Mmmmm-Kay!

   That's better. Apparently the new version wasn't in there anyway (nope, neither file) because the new code wasn't linked. Now it's the proper Beta version 2.09. If you do a 'version streamer2.020 full', you should see 2.09 (6-Jul-04)

  I'm glad now that I asked for help!

-Brian

http://www.tigger1.demon.co.uk/amiga/software.html