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It's getting a bit annoying. The last two releases of VLC 0.9.9a and now 1.0.0 (for MacOS X Intel 10.5.7) show problems I never experienced with older versions. Was it in 0.9.9a a not properly working progress bar and media title display which made me go back to 0.9.8a, now in 1.0.0 it's the Services Discovery for Shoutcast Radio and TV listings.

The error log says:
main error: open of `http/shout-winamp://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newxml.phtml' failed: (null)
That's for Shoutcast Radio
main error: open of `http/shout-winamp://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newtvlister.phtml?alltv=1' failed: (null)
That's for Shoutcast TV

Does anybody else experiences this failure?

For now a consider it as a temporary problem and will give it another try tomorrow. But if this continues I have to go back again to VLC 0.9.8a.

Klaus

It's working now, I take back my complaint.
Sorry.

Can we have more log?

Thanks for replying.
But as I said, it's working and checking the log now, it doesn't list the failure anymore. I mean I'm happy about that. If this problem turns up again I will post it under the same topic. Thanks again.

thank u all for vlc, it is the greatest video application ever
i have two new errors with vlc 1.0
the shoutcast error and the encoder error (vlc is my main choice of application for transcoding) (will post the error in the appropriate topic)

i am having the same error messages with shoutcast
here is the log

macosx debug: notification received in VLC with name VLCOSXGUIInit and object VLCEyeTVSupport
main debug: connection: Operation now in progress
main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 13)
access_http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 503
access_http error: error: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
access_http debug: switching to HTTP version 1.0
main debug: net: connecting to www.shoutcast.com port 80
main debug: connection: Operation now in progress
main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 13)
access_http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 503
access_http error: error: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
main debug: net: connecting to www.shoutcast.com port 80
main debug: connection: Operation now in progress
main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 13)
access_mms debug: HTTP reply 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK'
access_mms error: invalid chunk FATAL (0x3f3c)
access_mms debug: complete header size=0
access_mms error: header size == 0
main warning: no access module matching "http" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 28794.795 ms - Total 28794.795 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 28794.795 ms)
main debug: waitpipe: object killed
main error: open of `http/shout-winamp://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/newxml.phtml' failed: (null)
main debug: TIMER input launching for 'Shoutcast Radio' : 28817.621 ms - Total 28817.621 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 28817.619 ms)


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thank you and good luck

i never attempted to read the log assuming it is full of jargon i would not understand,
but i took the chance and read the log that i posted with my own mouse clicks.
it says "HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable"

i am assuming this not vlc related, it is merely an internet connectivity issue.

gheez

vlc is a miracle in the bytes. )

Its working for me. Could you try clearing your preferences and see if that changes anything?

It seems like Shoutcast's servers are a bit unreliable these days. It usually works again after a few minutes without changing anything within VLC.