JW Player for HTML5 beta and Shoutcast

JW Player — Apr 04, 2014 09:14AM EDT

Hello

I don't know how to listen my shoutcast radio with new Player because the syntax has changed.
Before I used :
player.sendEvent('LOAD', lst);
var lst = new Array();
lst[0] = {
description:"MyDescription",
file:"http://<MyIP>:<MyPort>/;listen.pls",
type:"sound"
}

Same problem with my WowzaMediaServer I use :
var so = new SWFObject("player-viral.swf","player","100%","100%","7","#000000");
so.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
so.addVariable("file","MyMovie.mp4'");
so.addVariable("streamer","rtmp://MyIP/streamingvideo")
so.write('placeholder');

I don't see anything about this on new player

Thanks

24 Community Answers

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Hello beginner,

The HTML5 Player is meant to play formats supported by the <video> tag (mp4, ogg, webM, etc). ShoutCast will not work with HTML5, it is not supported.

Best,
-Ethan

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Ethan, your statement is false. i myself am streaming shoutcast via html5

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Show me a link, then, thanks.

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

It works yes, I tried the new one a week ago, but I was looking with the new one is to see if it works with mobiles devices. I mean people can listen the music once they land on the website, but I get an error, anyway it doesn't work either with the old version for mobiles devices at least for me dont't

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Link?

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

I just scripted a site with it, Ethan.
You silly beginners, lol. Try this:
bc.. <audio controls src="http://yourdomain.com:8092/;" id="controls" /></audio>

Do note that I was only scripting the site for my iPhone's Safari browser, so other browsers might not show it... I didn't take the time to test it on anything but my iPhone.

Hope it helps... Toodles! xD

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Thanks…does it work, can you provide an example?

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

So, there is no way that I can use a JW Player to play a live server stream from say this address?

http://188.72.209.46

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

It is possible to do, but it is not officially supported, as Flash has issues itself with ShoutCast streams.

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Here's a link using the h5 audio tag for a listen.pls:
http://digitalfrontiersmedia.com/stephen/nowplaying.html

It works on my machine in Mac Safari 5.0.3. YMMV.

The src is a Shoutcast MP3 stream.
This page is not using JW Player; simply showing that <audio> does work with Shoutcast. However, it may not necessarily work in your browser since not all codecs are supported across all browsers currently.

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Works for me!

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

tested on chrome, osx v10.5.8 - was not able to stream

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Use a Icecast2 server to act as a slave for your shoutcast stream and relay the shoutcast stream as ogg and mp3 format. Then use html5 audio tag to source from both the relayed ogg and mp3 streams. Firefox and Opera will play the ogg streams and Chrome, Safari and IE9 will play from the MP3 streams. In case someone has older browsers like IE7 etc which don't support audio tag, then use JPlayer using JQuery which loads flash player as a fall back option if none of the other formats work.

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Thanks for sharing.

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Sir Ethan heres a working link > http://forbiddencurse.webs.com/Radio/mornytadiktus.html

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Cool, thanks for sharing!

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

does it work in iphone, ipad using safari, and latest android phones using opera?

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Not sure, as we don’t officially support ShoutCast…

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

thats is a 5.7, in 5.8 dont work

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Clarify?

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Hello Cyrille Anne
I see your linka nd thats what im looking for, Please can you posted the code how you make it work!! I will appreciated your help.

Thanks.

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

The code is right there:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" id="single1" name="single1" height="100" width="330">
<param name="movie" value="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player5.7.swf" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="flashvars" value="image=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h2fm9niPx4c/Tnbp7lvfq7I/AAAAAAAAAg8/YfoQ392d-20/s1600/Mornytbanner.jpg&plugins=subeq-1h&subeq.soundonly=false&subeq.pluginmode=FLASH&controlbar.position=bottom&dock.position=true&linktarget=http://adiktus-tambayan-live-video-chat.blogspot.com/&file= http://s3.voscast.com:7116/;stream.mp3&skin=http://www.longtailvideo.com/files/skins/newtubedark/5/newtubedark.zip&frontcolor=ffffff&lightcolor=cc9900&screencolor=ffffff&stretching=exactfit&autostart=true&duration=99999" />
<embed id="single2" name="single2" src="http://player.longtailvideo.com/player5.7.swf" bgcolor="#000000" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="image=http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h2fm9niPx4c/Tnbp7lvfq7I/AAAAAAAAAg8/YfoQ392d-20/s1600/Mornytbanner.jpg&plugins=subeq-1h&subeq.soundonly=false&subeq.pluginmode=FLASH&controlbar.position=bottom&dock.position=true&linktarget=http://adiktus-tambayan-live-video-chat.blogspot.com/&file= http://s3.voscast.com:7116/;stream.mp3&skin=http://www.longtailvideo.com/files/skins/newtubedark/5/newtubedark.zip&frontcolor=ffffff&lightcolor=cc9900&screencolor=ffffff&stretching=exactfit&autostart=autostart&duration=99999" height="100" width="330">
</embed></object><!-- --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.websimages.com/static/global/js/webs/usersites/escort.js"></script><script type="text/javascript">if(typeof(urchinTracker)=='function'){_uacct="UA-230305-2";_udn="none";_uff=false;urchinTracker();}</script>

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

try this

<embed height="20" width="210" flashvars="type=mp3&autostart=true&file=http://ur.nyit-nyit.net:8110/;stream.nsv" allowfullscreen="false" quality="high" wmode="transparent" name="streambaby" id="streambaby" style="" src="http://www.nyit-nyit.net/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 01:20PM EDT 0 rated :

Yes, our player seems to work with NSV files, at least in Flash mode…

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