[MPlayer-users] Help: Can't play mp3 stream via http

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:30:45PM +0000, Andrea wrote:
> It usually plays with Flash and I got the mp3 address by looking with wireshark at the traffic
> generated by Flash in Firefox.

I don't think they intended you to use it this way then.

> > They use some custom shoutcast clone that unfortunately is horribly
> > broken, e.g. it expect the whole HTTP header to be in a single TCP
> > packet (i.e. impossible to test with telnet).
> > It also treats "Icy-MetaData: 0" as "Icy-MetaData: 1"
> > You can either modify stream/network.c to remove the line with
> > Icy-MetaData or hack the binary via e.g.
> > sed -e 's/Icy-MetaData: 1/Xcy-MetaData: 0/' < mplayer > mplayermod
> > Then it plays, but no metadata then.
> 
> Would you be able to detail exactly what is the wrong (and what would be the correct "html") so that
> I try to tell them to fix it?

Well, you can just ask them if they can support Winamp for playing it,
as to what they are doing wrong: their server returns an empty file when
"Icy-MetaData: 1" is set in the http request.
To play it you can use latest svn and the url:
noicyx://france-info1.creacast.com/france-info.mp3

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger