[Qt-interest] Phonon and Shoutcast-Streams

[Ulrich Geilmann]

Hi.

Thanks for the answer.

> I 
> tried http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=1480&file=filename.pls 
> <http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=1480&file=filename.pls>
> and http://208.53.158.213:80/listen.pls several times, they both work 
> here on my Mac (but just using a url to the http port on a specific 
> machine is not supported, I guess iTunes does some extra magic here).

I tried playing http://208.53.158.213:80 in the QuickTime Player and he
refused to do it (but he did it with /listen.pls appended) - so it is
the same behavior as with my application and propably caused by 
QuickTime. I just tested my application under Linux with gstreamer 
backend... Funny thing: I get an error when using 
http://208.53.158.213:80/listen.pls (Cannot decode media source - which 
makes sense because it's a playlist - not a media format) but the 
http://208.53.158.213:80 Url is perfectly played.
I think this incompatible behavior of different backends reduces the 
convenience of using Phonon as abstraction layer to write platform 
independent applications... I hope future versions will reduce such 
problems.

> 
> QuickTime can spend a long time when setting up media for streaming, and 
> right now the Phonon QuickTime backend holds the thread while waiting. 
> Optimization for this is on the list for thigs todo.
> 
That's good to hear.


Regards,
Ulrich