2020 update Modern browsers don’t need any special treatment or server-side workarounds to play audio. Simply use an audio tag with a direct link to one or more stream sources (not a playlist): <audio> <source src=”http://relay.publicdomainradio.org/classical.mp3″ type=”audio/mpeg”> </audio> From MDN: The HTML <audio> element is used to embed sound content in documents. It may contain … Read more
No. Trying to write an Android application that handles this will not be the solution. At least if you want to use A2DP Sink role. The fact is that Android, as you mentioned it, does not implement the API calls to BlueZ (the bluetooth stack Android uses till Jelly Bean 4.1) regarding A2DP sink capabilities. … Read more
Go to this file https://github.com/Old-Geek/Radio/blob/master/app/src/main/java/org/oucho/radio/Player.java#L234 and change player.setDataSource(context, Uri.parse(url)); to player.setDataSource(url) The problem is that void setDataSource (String path) Sets the data source (file-path or http/rtsp URL) to use. path String: the path of the file, or the http/rtsp URL of the stream you want to play the github code uses void setDataSource (Context context, … Read more
Yes, the Web Audio API (along with AJAX or Websockets) can be used for streaming. Basically, you pull down (or send, in the case of Websockets) some chunks of n length. Then you decode them with the Web Audio API and queue them up to be played, one after the other. Because the Web Audio … Read more
It does appear that it is buffering a fixed amount of data rather than a fixed amount of time. For anyone who doesn’t know the bitrates of various types of NPR streams off the top of their head, the data looks like: MPR news stream: 27 seconds (http://newsstream1.publicradio.org:80/), 64 kbps MPR classical music stream: 15 … Read more
Here’s a (slightly outdated) summary of the current status of HTML5 Audio and Icecast streams. As you can see, a MP3 source only seems to work in Safari (and possibly IE9). You might need to experiment with some server-side transcoding (with ffmpeg or mencoder) to OGG Vorbis. I’m pretty sure I was able to get … Read more
Yes it is possible, but you have a few problems. 1) Red5 is terribly under-documented and buggy. 2) rtmpe/rtmps 3) performance/scalability 4) 1 through 3 are things you can overcome, but not without getting to know media distribution and all of it’s associated issues very intimately. By the time you’re done, you will be one … Read more
Don’t use playerItemWithURL it’s sync. When you receive the response with the url try this: AVURLAsset *asset = [[AVURLAsset alloc] initWithURL:url options:nil]; NSArray *keys = @[@”playable”]; [asset loadValuesAsynchronouslyForKeys:keys completionHandler:^() { [self.player insertItem:[AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:asset] afterItem:nil]; }];