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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vlc-1.1.4 won't shoutcast?
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:16:42
Message-Id: 4CA8D65A.2040504@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] vlc-1.1.4 won't shoutcast? by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Sunday 03 October 2010 19:10:13 Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Mick wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Sunday 03 October 2010 17:29:45 Dale wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> Mick wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> On Sunday 03 October 2010 15:41:43 Vincent-Xavier JUMEL wrote:
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>>> Le 03 octobre à 14:05 Mick a écrit
13 >>>>>>
14 >>>>>>
15 >>>>>>> It doesn't show up in the menu anymore. The previous version was
16 >>>>>>> working fine. Am I missing some crafty USE flag?
17 >>>>>>>
18 >>>>>> If you're using vlc 1.1.0 or above, you should have read
19 >>>>>> http://www.videolan.org/press/2010-1.html which informs about the
20 >>>>>> situation and why the VLC team had had to removed it.
21 >>>>>>
22 >>>>> Thanks, I can see why now. The page mentions icecast as an alternative
23 >>>>> and the fact that this is available as an Addon for vlc, but can't find
24 >>>>> anywhere how to add it on ...
25 >>>>>
26 >>>> I know nothing about vlc or icecast but I did google and find this.
27 >>>>
28 >>>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/VLC/StreamingIcecast
29 >>>>
30 >>>> It may help, it may not. Let's hope. ;-)
31 >>>>
32 >>> Thanks Dale, very kind of you to look into this for me. I actually want
33 >>> to stream from (listen to internet radio), not stream to a server.
34 >>>
35 >>> Previous versions of vlc had a Service Discovery option which would tune
36 >>> in to shoutcast/icecast servers to list and listen to their streams.
37 >>> This has now been removed. A really good feature was that you could
38 >>> search for music of your liking by genre and different servers would
39 >>> show up to allow you to connect and listen.
40 >>>
41 >> While diggin, I saw a list of servers and I think they were by genre.
42 >> Just go to google and type in icecast server and see what pops up.
43 >> Also, watch what google suggests as you type to. It may show a option
44 >> we aren't thinking about. May be just what you need.
45 >>
46 > Yes, google shows and plays shoutcast/icecast music via the browser. It is
47 > just that I used to do that directly from within vlc. But now both vlc and
48 > amarok dropped it due to AOL. :-(
49 >
50
51 I was talking about google as a search tool. I found this on Google:
52
53 http://dir.xiph.org/index.php
54
55 Genre is on the left but it is a short list. No idea what you are
56 looking for tho. ;-)
57
58 Dale
59
60 :-) :-)