Problems streaming

[gopher]

I installed it today, let it scan for my files, and everything worked fine so far. Only the streaming feature (which was my main reason to get it), doesn't work :/ Whenever I try to stream anything, I get the "Internal 500 Error" with Winamp, or a simple "Can't open URL" in Foobar2000.

Playing/Downloading the files directly works though.

Any idea what the problem might be? It's not like there's tons of options to mess around with / screw up

PHP: 4.3.1
Apache: 1.3.28

[wbartels]

Can you give me some more information?

Witch OS do you use?
Have you installed the "codec pack" or similar?
Does this also happens when streaming from the local server (127.0.0.1, localhost)?
What happens if you try to record an album (green check or red cross) ?

[Shizzle]

I would have to say that I run into similar problems myself but the problem that I would encounter is that when someone streams from my server that the music that they play doesn't play for them but it would play locally on my machine instead.

I noticed that the HTTPQ settings were not correct due to my ISP changing my IP address a lot. Once I update the HTTPQ settings in Winamp all is good. I also had to update the codec settings in the config.inc.php to reflect the drive change that I did and forgot to update this as well.

So Gopher my advice is to double check everything, make sure the codecs are installed and the config.inc.php file is correct and HTTPQ is correct as well.

[gopher]

OS: Windows XP SP2

config.inc.php

$cfg['media_dir'] = 'D:/Music';

[ ... ]

$cfg['decode_stdout']['mp3'] = 'D:\Dateien\mp3\codec_1.08_win32\lame.exe --decode --silent %source -';

D:\Dateien\mp3\codec_1.08_win32\ = Path to the codec files

httpQ config

httpQ host: 192.168.1.100 (=Local LAN IP)
httpQ port: 4800
httpQ password: (blank)
Media share: D:/Music

httpQ @ Winamp:

Password: (blank)
IP Adress: 192.168.1.100
Port: 4800

Start service automatically, service started

(I tried it both with a password and without)

Streaming & httpQ both don't work, when I try to stream a song/album, it time outs after a while, with httpQ there's no "feedback" at all. So far I wasn't even able to stream directly to "myself" (browsing localhost, trying to stream).

[wbartels]

For the httpQ configuration you must set a password.

For streaming you must also configure:

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$cfg['stream_extension'][]          = 'mp3';
$cfg['stream_name'][]               = 'MP3 @ 64 kbps';
$cfg['stream_encode'][]             = 'D:\Console\Codec\lame.exe --abr 64 --id3v2-only --ta %artist --tt %title --tc %comment --noreplaygain -t --silent - -';
$cfg['stream_max_channels'][]       = 2;
$cfg['stream_transcode_treshold'][] = 65000;

...

When you click on the username, than you can select a stream profile.
This profile is corresponding with the above configuration.

Good luck,

Willem

[gopher]

Alright, httpQ works now, had nothing to do with the password, but with me selecting the wrong IP adress

I did have the streaming part configured though, only forgot to paste it:

$cfg['stream_extension'][] = 'mp3';
$cfg['stream_name'][] = 'MP3 @ 64 kbps';
$cfg['stream_encode'][] = 'D:\Dateien\mp3\codec_1.08_win32\lame.exe --abr 64 --id3v2-only --ta %artist --tt %title --tc %comment --noreplaygain -t --silent - -';
$cfg['stream_max_channels'][] = 2;
$cfg['stream_transcode_treshold'][] = 65000;

Stream still doesn't work though.

[Shizzle]

hmmm... I have mine setup in the same fashion and all is well. The only thing that I noticed is that when I would stream over the internet then it wouldn't work and figured it was because of my router and firewall. What I had to do on the router was forward port 80 to 192.168.1.101 and then it seamed to work just fine as long as I remembered to have Winamp running

I am really not thinking straight right now cause I am so tired. I will come back in the morning and see if I can't be any more helpful, unless Willem beats me to the punch