creating winamp-play links?

[radical dreamer]

Alright, here's how it goes. I wanna make a link to a .nsv stream, and I want the link to open that stream inside winamp.

(when I just put in a normal .nsv url, it opens the .nsv as data inside internet explorer, not in winamp)

Anyone know how to do this?

[djmastermind]

Select WinAmp, ctrl+L, enter the address of the stream. Or go into the Internet TV section of the Media Library. That is, of course, if you have WinAmp 5.

[ken52787]

You could put the link inside a m3u or pls playlist, but that'll only work if itunes or other media players didn't snatch the association from winamp.

[djmastermind]

Make a PLS

[radical dreamer]

Hey, thanks that .pls stuff works.

Though now I gotta find somewhere to upload it, 'coz my free web host won't let me upload it. :S

[djmastermind]

I'm sure that some nice person around here that has a large webserver would be willing to host a tiny little .pls. Just ask around nicely.

[akrall]

Originally posted by djmastermind
I'm sure that some nice person around here that has a large webserver would be willing to host a tiny little .pls. Just ask around nicely.

I tried the same thing but when I click on the a.pls link.. it gets displayed on the browser a this:

[playlist]
NumberOfEntries=1
File1=Charmed%206x01%20Trailer.nsv
Title1=test
Length1=-1
Version=2

Whats wrong?

[Jay]

you need to enter pls into your mime types file

audio/x-scpls pls

[akrall]

Originally posted by KXRM
you need to enter pls into your mime types file

audio/x-scpls pls

on apache?

m3u seems to work, but not pls

[Sawg]

On Apache add to .htaccess:

code:
AddType audio/x-scpls pls

[akrall]

Weird, I did and dont know why pls still dont work but m3u do so I made my own stream.php script that makes the m3u on the fly and now I finally got nsv on demand working

[sankt]

How about posting that php script. Would be helpfull to other broadcasters im sure

[akrall]

Of course... here is the code.

<?
header("Content-Type: audio/x-mpegurl");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"playlist.m3u\"");
$server=$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];
$file=rawurlencode($HTTP_GET_VARS['file']);
print "http://".$server."/download/$file";
?>

Its very short and clean... the php assumes that your files are located in /download on your web server so change accordingly.

The script receives one parameter, filename you want to stream. It also takes care of doing the ' ' to %20 convertion.

You can call it like this for ex.

Make a button or link like this:

<a href="/stream.php?file=$item"><img src="images/watch
.jpg"></a>

Where $file is the name of the file to stream.

If you need any help, please drop me a note.