[MPlayer-dev-eng] Streaming ASF and Title/Author headers

[Bertrand Baudet]

Which protocol are you using. Is it MMST or ASF/HTTP?
What is the radio URL?
You can't query the server for the track name.
It depends on the way the radio is streaming. Is it a live brodcast that
is also streamed over the internet? Or is it a playlist that is only streamed
on the net?
In the firt case, I don't remember seeing a way of updating the tittle. 
For the last case, they can setup on the server side to stream as a live
stream from a playlist, or to stream tittle by tittle. Streaming tittle by
tittle will send the ASF header for each tittle. Which is not the case for
the live stream. The trouble by sending tittle by tittle is that you need to
reset the ASF parser with the new info from the header. The new tittle
can be encoded with another codec, so you will have to close the previously
used one and reopen the new one. 
I don't know how to handle that in mplayer. I never had time to dig to find a
solution.

Bertrand

On Saturday 19 July 2003 19:18, Adam wrote:
> Hopefully this would be the right place to post this, but I use mplayer to
> listen to streaming audio in ASF format, from a audio providor that I pay
> to use the service on, the problem is that the track/author headers (from
> what ive been reserching over the specs and the source (ala asfheader.c))
> it reads it at the begining of the playback and then starts demuxing.
>
> audio works fine, but is there a way I can modify the code to re-read the
> author/title and probe for new data to display it? I am hoping this is a
> easy thing to do, but not knowing C very well kinda makes it difficult.
>
> TIA
>  - Adam
>
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