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> You're amazing. Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to check out mmar. > But without port-forwarding on the router, running mmar on the server PC I can

> You're amazing. Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to check out mmar. > But without port-forwarding on the router, running mmar on the server PC I can see the tunnel to port 8080 on your subdomain, but have not had any luck reaching the VLC media from that address on the web. I haven't tested HTTP streaming using mmar, however taking a look at the logs, I can see a bunch of i/o timeouts, so it's likely the case the HTTP streaming doesn't work properly with mmar currently. Do you have any suggestions off the top of your head for a small project that has HTTP streaming that I can run locally to test? If not, that's fine, I can figure something out to reproduce the issue.

fuzzfactor 2y ago
Try VLC, it's an open-source media streaming server as well as a media player. Linux focused with decent functioning on the Windows version too. Plays or streams lots of codecs but has many limitations. MP3's are fairly easy though. In Windows I suggest carefully installing VLC to a folder you make yourself, such as C:\VLC. It doesn't do very well if allowed to install to its default "Program Files" location, seems it doesn't like a space in the foldername. VLC will want an exception in the Windows Firewall which I enable. There are extensive VLC settings, but defaults will serve (or play) an MP3 stream right out of the box. In Windows you may not be able to hear anything on the local server speakers without selecting DirectX, but regardless VLC will still serve the streaming files, even without audio hardware on the server PC. There is a stream "wizard" that can be gone through to end up with a command-line which launches VLC streams accordingly. There are a lot of options, I narrow it down as follows: Even in Windows I respect the case-sensitive filenames, always including the .exe extension too: C:\VLC\vlc.exe C:\mp3s\example.mp3 --sout #duplicate{dst=http{mux=mp3,dst=:8080/mmarRadio},dst=display} :no-sout-all :sout-keep This launches VLC, streams the example mp3 to port 8080 with a streamname of mmarRadio, and duplicates the stream to the "display" which is really the PC audio since it's not a video stream. That way you can listen to it on the server's speakers simultaneously. On the main VLC window there is a button to make the media repeat indefinitely too, good for testing. On a remote PC, you can use VLC to listen by Opening a Network Stream from the File menu, and entering the numerical IP address of the media server: http://ipaddress:8080/mmarRadio http://ipaddress:8080/mmarRadio Windows Media Player plays the stream at this address by "Open URL", in Linux the mp3 stream opens on Celluloid with "Open Location". There is no file extension for the streamname, the IP address is either the LAN address if local, or the web address of the modem/router whose port 8080 is being forwarded to the mediaserver PC. Web address can be numerical too if there is no DNS. ipv4 is where this is really needed, I disable ipv6 for testing.
- ymusleh 2y ago
  Great, thanks for all the pointers. I'll give them a shot and look into it later this week. And hopefully can get back to you soon with a fix.
  - fuzzfactor 2y ago
    I have great confidence this is going to work!

fuzzfactor 2y ago

Try VLC, it's an open-source media streaming server as well as a media player. Linux focused with decent functioning on the Windows version too. Plays or streams lots of codecs but has many limitations. MP3's are fairly easy though. In Windows I suggest carefully installing VLC to a folder you make yourself, such as C:\VLC. It doesn't do very well if allowed to install to its default "Program Files" location, seems it doesn't like a space in the foldername. VLC will want an exception in the Windows Firewall which I enable. There are extensive VLC settings, but defaults will serve (or play) an MP3 stream right out of the box. In Windows you may not be able to hear anything on the local server speakers without selecting DirectX, but regardless VLC will still serve the streaming files, even without audio hardware on the server PC. There is a stream "wizard" that can be gone through to end up with a command-line which launches VLC streams accordingly. There are a lot of options, I narrow it down as follows: Even in Windows I respect the case-sensitive filenames, always including the .exe extension too: C:\VLC\vlc.exe C:\mp3s\example.mp3 --sout #duplicate{dst=http{mux=mp3,dst=:8080/mmarRadio},dst=display} :no-sout-all :sout-keep This launches VLC, streams the example mp3 to port 8080 with a streamname of mmarRadio, and duplicates the stream to the "display" which is really the PC audio since it's not a video stream. That way you can listen to it on the server's speakers simultaneously. On the main VLC window there is a button to make the media repeat indefinitely too, good for testing. On a remote PC, you can use VLC to listen by Opening a Network Stream from the File menu, and entering the numerical IP address of the media server: http://ipaddress:8080/mmarRadio http://ipaddress:8080/mmarRadio Windows Media Player plays the stream at this address by "Open URL", in Linux the mp3 stream opens on Celluloid with "Open Location". There is no file extension for the streamname, the IP address is either the LAN address if local, or the web address of the modem/router whose port 8080 is being forwarded to the mediaserver PC. Web address can be numerical too if there is no DNS. ipv4 is where this is really needed, I disable ipv6 for testing.

ymusleh 2y ago
Great, thanks for all the pointers. I'll give them a shot and look into it later this week. And hopefully can get back to you soon with a fix.
- fuzzfactor 2y ago
  I have great confidence this is going to work!