Ondemand streaming

[Sim9]

Is there any way to stream a video file in the content directory?

For example, you can stream
http://ip:port/content/file.mp3

However, I'd like to be able to do something like:
http://ip:port/content/file.nsv

I've tried numerous combinations of ';' yet still have not been able to get this to work. I also didn't find the answer in these forums. Thanks for any advice you can give!

[Sawg]

SHOUTcast only supports MP3 files for On Demand streaming.

[matt2kjones]

cant you do that by creating a playlist file, which links to an mp3 file, and pointing a link to the playlist file???

for example, have a playlist file called play.pls which holds the location of video.nsv

then, when play.pls if clicked, it loads the video in winamp

[juno]

Originally posted by matt2kjones
cant you do that by creating a playlist file, which links to an mp3 file, and pointing a link to the playlist file???

for example, have a playlist file called play.pls which holds the location of video.nsv

then, when play.pls if clicked, it loads the video in winamp

I hope something like this is being worked on. Right now its a LIVE camera or playback, but not both. I'd like to be able to switch from a live camera, play a video ad, then switch back.

[Sim9]

Thanks, guess I'll just stream them via our FTP server :)

[Sim9]

Eh... ha... *can* you stream via FTP protocol? HTTP is working fine.. but I can't seem to get an FTP connection going through winamp.

(This is an issue for me since I have some nice load balancing on my FTP servers that prevents the server going down from a slashdotting. However, through HTTP, there is little to no control, so I keep HTTP transfers to an absolute minimum)

[Jay]

nope Winamp doesn't support FTP streaming only HTTP. There are ways to control HTTP streaming you just need a server side script to do it for you.