with video widget you can add flash video streaming so why do we not yet have a audio only like a shoutcast stream ???
Hi guys,
the only streaming that Flash supports is RTMP. This is for both video and audio, so if you are loading an mp3 over streaming it will always start with rtmp:// or it isn't made for Flash streaming.
I took at look at ShoutCast and it appears they are loading music using regular progressive download. It looks like they may be doing something fancy like continually adding to the file on the server as its being downloaded as I haven't seen the download ever end. Because they don't have a flash crossdomain.xml policy file in place that would allow our players to load their files directly our players fallback to using our server side proxy to make the request. Because the file request never seams to technically end, the proxy never returns and the player just hangs.
I can't suggest a work around for this except to ask shoutcast. They may not want 3rd party players loading their content. If they would add a crossdomain policy file like this: http://www.kickdeveloper.com/api/index.php/Using_a_Flash_cross-domain_policy_file_when_hosting_your_own_feeds_or_widget_assets to their server their media should work in our players,
Mark
Edited by markL, 1 month ago