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Author:  Gibble [ Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:46 am ]
Post subject:  Possible to start a shoutcast stream from remote.
Hi,

I have an odd request, not sure if there's a way to make it work or not. When I listen to internet streams I almost always listen to the same shoutcast stream. But it takes too long to find the stream through the menus. I would love it if I could setup a button on my remote, to automatically switch to Internet streams, and start playing a specific stream. It would also allow me to not have to turn on the TV just to find the stream. I could just push the button, and it would be playing.

Is there any way I can hack this into working?

Thanks.
Author:  cecil [ Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:29 pm ]
Post subject: 
Well, I suppose mplayer can play the stream so a script like:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
mplayer http://shoutcast.com/blahblah/playlist.pls
Or something like that... I'd have a start stream and stop stream on the menu. If you search the forum, you'll find info on making a menu entry. To stop the stream, simply kill mplayer.
Author:  Gibble [ Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:44 pm ]
Post subject: 
That would work...not ideal, but it would work.

Thanks.
Author:  Gibble [ Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:11 am ]
Post subject: 
So I whipped up a little script and bound it to a button on my remote.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

pidfile=~/playChronix.pid

if [ ! -e "$pidfile" ]
then
        prog="mplayer http://www.chronixradio.com/chronixaggression/listen/listen.pls"
        $prog &
        PID=$!
        echo $PID > "$pidfile"
else
        pid2kill=`cat $pidfile`
        kill -9 $pid2kill
        rm $pidfile
fi

exit 0


added it to /home/mythtv/scripts/.lircrc as
Code:
# Play Shoutcast Stream
begin
prog = mythtv
button = blue
config = /home/mythtv/scripts/playChronix.sh
end


...but it doesn't work, if I just run the script on the command line, it's perfect. Not sure where to look to see what's wrong.
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