macromedia flash/shoutcast

[Nebulus]

Well, in both standalone SWF and in a page, I was able to use the allowDomain method to get a .pls file to load from shoutCast. One interesting thing to note here is that the file I'm loading is in a Windows ini file format, not XML. The XML object loads it with no problem, and then I split on carriage returns, then loop through the array to pick out the tracks (check for "File" in the string, then split on "=").

Now, the standalone SWF will stream just fine, but the SWF embeded in a page just flat out won't work.

What I find strange is that with the sacred security model, I'm able to load XML from ShoutCast - a completely different and non compatible domain, but I can't stream and audio file? Something is messed up here. I suspect that it has something to do with the streams coming from an IP address and port - a possible Macromedia bug?

Oh, and sorry for the really nasty interface on the player - it's a test only