Statistics and monitoring playback

[hapua64]

Is there a way to read any of the statistics from the "Stream" tab of the "Media Information" dialog over the network?

I need a reliable way to monitor playback on a remote machine, and I thought I might be able to poll one of the stream statistics every few minutes, and raise an alarm if it were zero.

Grateful for any other monitoring ideas people might have.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, run the RC interface.

[Lorni]

For windows I parse 'netstat -n'

Here is PHP code:

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<?php function netstat($ipaddr,$port,$show=0,$protocol="TCP") { $shell_info=shell_exec("%SYSTEMROOT%\\system32\\netstat.exe -n"); $tmp=explode("\n",$shell_info); $count=0; for ($i=4;$i<count($tmp)-1;$i++) { $line=$tmp[$i]; ereg (" +([A-Z]+) +([0-9,.]+):([0-9]+) +([0-9,.]+):([0-9]+) +([A-Z]+)", $line, $regs); if ($regs[6]!="ESTABLISHED") continue; if ($regs[1]!=$protocol) continue; if ($ipaddr&&$regs[2]!=$ipaddr) continue; if ($port&&$regs[3]!=$port) continue; ++$count; if ($show) echo $regs[4]./*":".$regs[5].*/"<br>"; } return $count; } ?>

So if you stream to 'UDP://192.168.0.1:1234' try this:

$n=netstat('192.168.0.1',1234,0,'UDP');

or if you want to output ip-list:

$n=netstat('192.168.0.1',1234,1,'UDP');

where $n is count of listeners.
Use default TCP for http or mmsh streaming:

$n=netstat('192.168.0.1',1234);