Cannot get asx internet radio streams working
#1
ive tried to follow the wiki, and had 3 stations streaming on my xbox ok. now i want to add some more they don't seem to work in windows.

What am i doing wrong?
If i take this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/t..._au_nb.asx

and paste it into a text document the n save as "bbcnewshour.strm" and save it as allfiles OR as a text doc neither will play under xbmc...

what am i doing wrong?
do i need to find the raw stream URL? howdo i do this?
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#2
supasparky Wrote:do i need to find the raw stream URL? howdo i do this?

Probably.

Download curl.exe (http://curl.haxx.se/) and use (to take your example):

Code:
curl http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/meta/tx/nb/newshour_au_nb.asx

This gives me:

Code:
<asx version = "3.0">
<entry>
   <ref href="http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/generateasx.esi?file=worldservice/css/nb/latest/newshour.wma" />
</entry>
</asx>

so the correct stream is:

Code:
http://wsdownload.bbc.co.uk/generateasx.esi?file=worldservice/css/nb/latest/newshour.wma

However, I found this doesn't work either! If you use the curl trick again you'll find this URL returns:

Code:
<ASX VERSION="3.0">
  <Title>BBC World Service</TITLE>
  <AUTHOR>BBC World Service</AUTHOR>
<ENTRY>
    <REF HREF="mms://a406.v39440a.c39440.e.vm.akamaistream.net/7/406/39440/201102230940/bbcworldservice.download.akamai.com/39440/worldservice/css/nb/latest/newshour.wma"/>
</ENTRY>
</ASX>

and the stream:

Code:
mms://a406.v39440a.c39440.e.vm.akamaistream.net/7/406/39440/201102230940/bbcworldservice.download.akamai.com/39440/worldservice/css/nb/latest/newshour.wma

does work!

JR
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#3
wow! thanks...so theyve double hidden it?..cheeky (*&(&^%
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