Internetradio setup

[Syranno]

I wanted to connect (wireless) my Sony KDL-40W4500 to my home network to display photographs, but discovered that with this software i can stream internet radio also. However I am unable to stream "http://www.radio-minerva.be/stream.php?ext=wax".
Reading this board did not help. Is there some kind of tutorial that I can download, or can someone guide me through the proces of setting up WMS.
Thanks for your help.

[Eugene]

I wanted to connect (wireless) my Sony KDL-40W4500 to my home network to display photographs, but discovered that with this software i can stream internet radio also. However I am unable to stream "http://www.radio-minerva.be/stream.php?ext=wax".
Reading this board did not help. Is there some kind of tutorial that I can download, or can someone guide me through the proces of setting up WMS.
Thanks for your help.

Select the folder "Internet-radio", the list of music on the right mouse button "Add link" "http://streams.movemedia.eu:8300", on the right mouse button, select the transcoding profile "Music (primary)". Commonly used transcoding profile "Music - Internet-radio (VLC)", but this mono radio station and there are problems with the sound output when using VLC.

[Syranno]

Eugene, thanks for your reply. Streaming works! But as you suggested, there was a little problem -odd sounds, gaps, twice as fast streaming- with the sound (don't really know why) but i corrected that by selecting the profile "Music (VLC)-MP3" instead of "Music-Internet radio". Now it works like a charm.
I have been streaming this station with VLC to my pc-speakers so I know it works well with VLC. Maybe the problems are related to the fact that this stations always starts of with an mp3 file, when first connected.
Something else I wanted to ask: after connection from DLNA-client to WMS it is impossible to disconnect and reconnect to WMS without starting over from the point of first connection. So if i connect to WMS at 0:00h and play for 40 min, disconnect from WMS, reconnect to WMS, the stream always starts at 0:00h and not from the 40 min point. Only shutting down WMS and restarting helps. Is this normal behaviour? Or has it something to do with the buffer size? In fact, can I decrease this buffer to ??(how much). Does decreasing the buffer size has any effect on performance?
Another thing I noticed: before there was an exclamation mark (?) in front of the stationname. At present it is a plus sign (+). What is the meaning of this and are there more of this kind of mark/signs to note other things in WMS?
And last: are you *sure* this is a mono music station? That is not what the owners tell me.

TIA

[Eugene]

Eugene, thanks for your reply. Streaming works! But as you suggested, there was a little problem -odd sounds, gaps, twice as fast streaming- with the sound (don't really know why)

In profile transcoding set encoding stereo sound, but VLC not transcodes mono to stereo. The server transmits the information that is stereo-sound, so the problem.

Something else I wanted to ask: after connection from DLNA-client to WMS it is impossible to disconnect and reconnect to WMS without starting over from the point of first connection. So if i connect to WMS at 0:00h and play for 40 min, disconnect from WMS, reconnect to WMS, the stream always starts at 0:00h and not from the 40 min point. Only shutting down WMS and restarting helps. Is this normal behaviour? Or has it something to do with the buffer size? In fact, can I decrease this buffer to ??(how much). Does decreasing the buffer size has any effect on performance?

You can select another station, will interrupt transcoding, I made a change to a more correct behavior. The buffer size is not associated with transcoding.

Another thing I noticed: before there was an exclamation mark (?) in front of the stationname. At present it is a plus sign (+). What is the meaning of this and are there more of this kind of mark/signs to note other things in WMS?

(+) - media resource available, (-) - unavailable, (?) - unknown

And last: are you *sure* this is a mono music station? That is not what the owners tell me.

VLC information - mono.

[Syranno]

I hate to ask this but how do I do this? "In profile transcoding set encoding stereo sound, but VLC not transcodes mono to stereo."
I searched for over an hour but can not find a way to change the transcoding profile.
Thanks again for your answer.

[Eugene]

I hate to ask this but how do I do this? "In profile transcoding set encoding stereo sound, but VLC not transcodes mono to stereo."
I searched for over an hour but can not find a way to change the transcoding profile.

It was a description of current problems. Changes will be in new versions.

P.S. Settings - Transcoder - Profiles

[Klausi69]

Adding Real-Streams doesn't work for me, whereas mp3-Streams are audible without any problems.

I try to play rtsp://212.162.67.232:554/redundant/bozen.rm?cloakport=8080,554,7070
That address is the resolved http://videolive.rai.it:8080/ramgen/redundant/bozen.rm
It's no problem to listen to this station by VLC. But unfortunately I can't use this link with WMS.
The test transcoding shows this message:

[0232cec4] dummy interface: VLC media player - version 1.0.5 Goldeneye - (c) 199
6-2010 the VideoLAN team
[0232cec4] dummy interface:
Warning: if you can't access the GUI anymore, open a command-line window, go to
the directory where you installed VLC and run "vlc -I qt"

[0232cec4] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
[0234336c] mux_dummy mux: Open
[02328654] live555 demux: real codec detected, using real-RTSP instead
[02328654] live555 demux error: Nothing to play for rtsp://212.162.67.232:554/redundant/bozen.rm?cloakport=8080,554,7070

The transcoded file in the tmp-folder is very small (<1 kB).
I hope there is a hint to solve this problem.
Thanks a lot.

[Eugene]

Adding Real-Streams doesn't work for me, whereas mp3-Streams are audible without any problems.

I try to play rtsp://212.162.67.232:554/redundant/bozen.rm?cloakport=8080,554,7070
That address is the resolved http://videolive.rai.it:8080/ramgen/redundant/bozen.rm
It's no problem to listen to this station by VLC. But unfortunately I can't use this link with WMS.
The test transcoding shows this message:

[0232cec4] dummy interface: VLC media player - version 1.0.5 Goldeneye - (c) 199
6-2010 the VideoLAN team
[0232cec4] dummy interface:
Warning: if you can't access the GUI anymore, open a command-line window, go to
the directory where you installed VLC and run "vlc -I qt"

[0232cec4] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
[0234336c] mux_dummy mux: Open
[02328654] live555 demux: real codec detected, using real-RTSP instead
[02328654] live555 demux error: Nothing to play for rtsp://212.162.67.232:554/redundant/bozen.rm?cloakport=8080,554,7070

The transcoded file in the tmp-folder is very small (<1 kB).
I hope there is a hint to solve this problem.
Thanks a lot.

Solution for rtsp://212.162.67.231:554/redundant/bozen.rm?cloakport=8080,554,7070
1. Settings - Transcoder - Profiles - Transcoding profiles list - select folder Music - Add
2. Name: Music - VLC - FFMPEG
3. Execute mode: Transcoding
4. Transcoding parameters:

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const
  csVlcParams = '-Idummy --language en --demuxdump-file="%s" "%s" :demux=dump';  
var
  sReadPipeName, sWritePipeName, sTranscodingParams: string;    
begin
  TranscodingResult := False;
  if WmsCreateDualPipe(sReadPipeName, sWritePipeName) then begin
    if WmsTranscodingExecute('VLC', Format(csVlcParams, [sWritePipeName, InputFileName]), False) then begin    
      if mpFileType <> '' then      
        sTranscodingParams := '-f ' + mpFileType + ' '
      else                          
        sTranscodingParams := '';
      sTranscodingParams := sTranscodingParams + '-i "%s" ';
      if SameText(Copy(cfgTranscodingRadioMimeType, 1, 9), 'audio/L16') then      
        sTranscodingParams := sTranscodingParams + '-f s16be -ac 2 -ar 44100 "%s"'        
      else                                                                          
        sTranscodingParams := sTranscodingParams + '-f mp3 -acodec libmp3lame -ab 192000 -ar 48000 "%s"';
      TranscodingResult := WmsTranscodingExecute('WMSMPEG', Format(sTranscodingParams, [sReadPipeName, OutputFileName]), True)          
    end 
  end 
end.

5. Ok-Ok-Ok
6. On right click mouse to choose transcoding profile "Music - VLC - FFMPEG".
7. On right click mouse "Test transcoding"