How can I open a port for Gxine to listen?

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evil
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How can I open a port for Gxine to listen?

#1 Post by evil »

When I open Gxine for playing e.g. a video file on the internet, it plays it by opening up a specific TCP or UDP port for receiving the video data.
BUT how can I open this port up manually without requesting a video file (so that it will play e.g. any video that is streamed to it from e.g. another PC on a LAN).

Any clues?

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#2 Post by GuestToo »

if you want to play a file on another machine as a stream, so that it is not transferred all at once, you need to install a streaming server on the other machine, like shoutcast or icecast

http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutor ... aming.html

http://www.mp3-howto.com/mp3-howto-12.html

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#3 Post by evil »

Yeh, the streaming side of things is understood and dealt with. However, I would like to stream video straight to Gxine from a different PC (on a LAN)....but how can I get gxine to have its port open for listening......surely it must be a setting somehwere.......??? After all, this is what is done when we connect to a source on the web - we press enter or play and it opens the port to receive e.g streaming data.

[thanks GuestToo for the links....I will have a read of them]

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#4 Post by GuestToo »

well, if you click this link:

http://193.251.154.242:19000/frequence3.ogg

gxine might connect to the server and play the streaming audio

(i seem to need to copy the link address and paste it in Gixine's File, Open MRL menu)

if you set up a server on a machine on your network in exactly the same way, and your machine has an ip address of 192.168.0.5, then using a link like this would work:

http://192.168.0.5:19000/frequence3.ogg

the exact address would depend on the address of the other machine (the server) and the port the server was configured to use, and the protocol etc etc

you can stream locally on your network, or allow incoming connections from the internet to connect to your server

to play the stream, you could click a link or in Gixine click File, Open MRL or put the address in a playlist or save it in the Media menu

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#5 Post by Flash »

GuestToo wrote:well, if you click this link:

http://193.251.154.242:19000/frequence3.ogg

gxine might connect to the server and play the streaming audio

(i seem to need to copy the link address and paste it in Gixine's File, Open MRL menu)
Thanks, G2. I never knew what Gxine's "File, Open MRL" was for. :)

When I click on the URL in your post, the SeaMonkey download manager shows it's downloading but gxine never opens; if I paste the URL into gxine's "File, Open MRL," the song plays.
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