2009-10-02, 11:51 PM
It's nice to see that MixMan announced the Web Radio plugin, it really is a "community" plugin with code from sub, ubu, MixMan and me. I even used Jeff's CommonGBPVRUtilities.dll without knowing that it wasn't sub's code until last last week. Thank also to pz1 for trying this on the MVP and martin123 for confirming DVB Radio was possible.
Not being quite as optimistic about the need for support as MixMan, a couple of months's ago I asked sub to open up Ubu's forum to as a place to support Web Radio for now and hopefully other streaming plugins in the future. I think Web Radio 2.0 replace UbuRadion completely and we can probably consider that it is dead.
For the future as I have time, I hope to replace UbuStream too, so maybe you will see Web Stream one day.
For those of you who haven't used UbuRadio note that Web Radio uses external media players. VLC is required for the MVP/PCH and it is a good overall player on the PC client too. I've tested many versions and the current version 1.0.2 works quite well (and it eliminates some security problems in older versions of VLC, which is important calling out to as many sites as the plugin now dows). VLC is also required for playing DVB and QAM Radio I will create another thread on the digital radio and on NMT/MVP use.
On the PC the default player is actually Winamp since it allowed the most integration with Shoutcast data, file loading information etc. MixMan bundled his work on a player based on the bass.dll's If there is enough interest in the bass dll's I can port the Mediaportal internal player too. To use an alternate player in the WebRadio plugin section add the name of the player ie to use VLC instead of Winamp use.
<player>C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</player>
A lot of this is flexible based on how you might use this so feedback is welcome.
Martin
Not being quite as optimistic about the need for support as MixMan, a couple of months's ago I asked sub to open up Ubu's forum to as a place to support Web Radio for now and hopefully other streaming plugins in the future. I think Web Radio 2.0 replace UbuRadion completely and we can probably consider that it is dead.
For the future as I have time, I hope to replace UbuStream too, so maybe you will see Web Stream one day.
For those of you who haven't used UbuRadio note that Web Radio uses external media players. VLC is required for the MVP/PCH and it is a good overall player on the PC client too. I've tested many versions and the current version 1.0.2 works quite well (and it eliminates some security problems in older versions of VLC, which is important calling out to as many sites as the plugin now dows). VLC is also required for playing DVB and QAM Radio I will create another thread on the digital radio and on NMT/MVP use.
On the PC the default player is actually Winamp since it allowed the most integration with Shoutcast data, file loading information etc. MixMan bundled his work on a player based on the bass.dll's If there is enough interest in the bass dll's I can port the Mediaportal internal player too. To use an alternate player in the WebRadio plugin section add the name of the player ie to use VLC instead of Winamp use.
<player>C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe</player>
A lot of this is flexible based on how you might use this so feedback is welcome.
Martin
