Crossfire release 0.5.0 (webbased streaming client)

I’m not using IIS, but cherokee with php and whatnot on my nslu2. I haven’t seen any mime types as prerequisites or in the install file. Then, I didn’t really search thouroughly – I confess 😉

I’m sure it can be made working even on small embedded browsers. Like I said, everything else is working like a charm. 🙂

I mainly tested with Apache and IIS, buit I am pretty sure the problem comes down to the way Cherokee handles Byte-ranges (I have similar issues with LightHTTPD).. This can be solved pretty easily by ommiting the binairy_proxy.php (which is req for iPhone only), and just stream the file directly. I will install Cherokee this week, and come up with a nice solution 😉

PS: There is a workaround for your problem, by using the default template and enable_byte_cache.. Edit the config.xml file, and speficy the default.xml template for Firefox. Also set ‘enable_byte_caching’ to true and… SSH to your NSLUG, you will need to enable write-acess on the Crossfire installation directory.. The enable_byte_cache functionality will first copy the song to the directory before serving (thus omiting byte-serving)… This option was implemented as a workaround a while ago, but not abondened yet.

PS: The issue is currently filed under:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1932020&group_id=216805&atid=1040044

Cheers,
Tony[/url]

@fizze wrote:

Thanks – this is awesome! 🙂
I’ll dig out my sf.net account and log the next bug myself.

I’ll let you know how it worked out, once I’m back home.

Hi Fizze,

here is the right solution to get Crossfire work without using the binairy_proxy.php (so you can use ALL templates). Please note: this solution will not work for iPhone’s since direct streaming causes ‘Broken stream pipe’s in Firefly’.

In my next release i will create a config_parameter for this solution, but for now you will just have to edit the file ;).

Edit the ‘index.html’ file:
locate the function

function openPlayer(p_itemid , p_element_id) {

...

...

[remove the line:]

playlist_url = base_url + '/binairyproxy.php?enc_url='+ encode64(playlist_url) +'&nocache='+ createTimeStamp();

....

[and]

[remove the line:]

url = base_url + '/binairyproxy.php?enc_url='+ encode64(url) +'&nocache='+ createTimeStamp();

...

}

now Edit your config.xml file and specify the hostname or ip of your NSLUG (NOT localhost!!!).

Let me know if this works, and I will parameterize the solution as: enable-direct-stream 😉

Cheers![/code]

@fizze wrote:

Ok, actually it sems to be a problem with different mp3s. I have one that works with cache = false, but takes about 15sec to load (which is ok).
All others I tried failed. But they of course play fine on the soundbridge.

The weird thing is that quicktime seems to be start to play all of them right from the start, but then stops after 3 seconds. For that one mp3 where it works, it really loads the hole file before it starts to play. Peculiar.

Instead of setting the use_internal_cache=true, try the code modification I sent above.. It should fix your issue on Firefox (and you should be able to use the jpint_tiger_firefox.xml theme. Don’t forget to change the config.xml file and put in the real hostname or IP address instead of localhost. I tested this on my MyBookWorld with LightHTTPd installed, and it solved the issue.

Basically the code mod will stream songs directly from Firefly instead, and should be the better option.

Let me know if this helps 😉

Cheers,
Tony

PS: I am compiling Cherokee 0.6 while typing 😉