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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:16:13PM +0100, Jesper Weiland wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> >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".
> > 
> >
> Maybe that helps, but isn't there an option to keep mplayer running and 
> reconnect to the streaming
> server? Then I don't need this workaround and I don't have to cron any 
> scripts to start mplayer if it
> stops.

Cron?? What about "until mplayer ... ; do true ; done"? There is no
such option for MPlayer, except -loop, and for some reason like you
say it's buggy. Even if it did work, MPlayer reinits sound for each
iteration, so it wouldn't keep the fifo open. Perhaps this should be
considered a bug too.

Rich