[MPlayer-users] [Streaming setup] Reconnecting after disconnect

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:38:12PM +0100, Jesper Weiland wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I'm currently making a (little dirty) streaming setup. My goal is to 
> relay streams in different formats (real,wma etc) to mp3 output. I've 
> downloaded and installed mplayer and it plays all the formats perfectly. 
> I use darkice to stream my signal to my relay-servers, but my setup is 
> really unstable.
> 
> We stream to a FIFO with the following command:
> 
> ./mplayer -ao pcm http://stream1.bcast.oggradio.nl:8005/jep -aofile 
> /fifo/fif01 -nowaveheader -srate 22050 -cache 16 -channels 1
> 
> Darkice uses the /fifo/fifo01 and it plays well. So far so good.
> 
> But: If mplayer looses it's connection (for example due some short 
> routing problems), it just stops and closes the fifo. Thereafter, 
> darkice also stops because the signal stops.
> 
> My question (Excuse me for the long story):
> 
> Is there a way to keep mplayer running and to let it reconnect till the 
> stream is back again? In that case darkice wouldn't stop and we're back 
> online when the source-stream is back. I've found the loop function, but 
> that shows a mplayer crash when I use it in combination with the command 
> i've pasted.
> 
> Does anybody have a clue? I'm about to give my presentation to some big 
> clients, so any help would be very nice.

To keep the fifo from getting closed, leave another process running
with /fifo/fif01 opened in write mode. For example "cat>/fifo/fif01".

Rich