Playing from pipe/stream instead of hooking into soundsystem

[quite]

Playing from pipe/stream instead of hooking into soundsystem

[muammar]

Reading from a a pipe or stream is totally feasible. However, reading a http stream would be much more easy for the moments. I was thinking in providing a flag --stream-url that users can pass to mkchromecast so that the audio (or video) can be played. Something like:

mkchromecast --stream-url https://ip:port/something -c ogg

I will implement this and come back to you so that you can test it. I suppose that configuring a HTTP streaming server type "httpd" in mpd.conf would do the trick.

As for the pipe from mpd, it's been a while since I don't use mpd myself. But if you could provide a working config file that do pipe I can work with it. In any case, I will read a bit more about it.

[quite]

Yes, "httpd" it is, and I already have that set up for streaming reasons. Ready to test!

[muammar]

I can change it to that, I agree. Thanks for reporting back.

[muammar]

@quite it is working. Update the alsa branch and do for instance:

python mkchromecast.py --stream-url http://192.99.131.205:8000/pvfm1.ogg -c ogg --volume

So you can pass your ogg stream coming from mpd, and it should work. You always have to use the -c flag to specify the codec. Tell me if it works. For me it is working great, this is very fun.

A list of stations to try:

https://ponyvillefm.com/servers

[quite]

Indeed, it's working OK. Would it make sense to call the option perhaps --source-url instead?

[muammar]

Now it is done. Please, feel free to close this report if you don't find anything else wrong :). Cheers.