Let's brainstorm..Setting up MinimServer to feed a USB DAC

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Hi Pete,

When MediaPlayer is configured with mpd and I'm using Kinsky to play the radio station using this URL, "mmsh://streaming.radionz.co.nz/concert-mbr?MSWWExt=.asf", it works. I'm not sure how you parse that to send it to mpd but it does the trick. Do you use the mmsh prefix to determine this is a Microsoft Media Server (MMS) stream? Or do you just pass it with the mmsh prefix to mpd?

When using the other URL, "http://streaming.radionz.co.nz/concert-mbr", which is an asx file containing this playlist:
[Reference]
Ref1=http://streaming.radionz.co.nz/concert-mbr?MSWMExt=.asf
Ref2=http://103.14.3.137:80/concert-mbr?MSWMExt=.asf

Could you not use the MSWWExt parameter to work out the referenced URLs are also MMS streams because of the ASF container used? Then you could treat them the same as the first ("mmsh://...") URL.

From what I've read on the wiki about MMS,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Media_Server
if you specify the mms:// or mmsh:// to the the client (WMP in the example on the wiki), it will handle both RTSP and the older MMS protocol. So applying that prefix for ASF containers should hopefully handle both protocols.


Thanks for the info on mplayer. I will experiment with buffering soon.

But if I had a choice I would use mpd because (like you said) I also like the way mpd handles gapless!

(As a side note, I had a lot of trouble initially on my Ubuntu PC getting mpd to play nicely with pulseaudio but it works fine now. On the raspberry pi I just use alsa and never had any problems.)

Cheers,
Ciprian