Possibly a "DEV" question on network streaming...
Posted: 30 Jun 2011 03:17
Hello Windows VLC Forum,
I'm a newbie to this forum, and so I am not sure how to go about getting assistance on this.
Let me describe what I would like to be able to do:
1. Whenever you open a network stream in VLC (in the default skin), the status bar, at the
bottom of the VLC window, updates with the name of the network stream, and most often
with the name of the song being played.
2. What I would like to do is to be able to capture just the song title (that's it). I am not
attempting to save the audio stream to a file.
3. Since VLC source code is open source, I would like to isolate the code that extracts
this info from the network stream.
4. I have more or less isolated the function call to update the status bar, but that is not
the most effective way of extracting the song title (in my opinion). I am needing
assistance in isolating the function call that extracts the song title info from the
network stream, before sending it to the gui call to update the status bar.
5. I have more or less isolated the possible code module that handles the kind of
audio streams I am interested in, which I believe it to be the "FAAD" module.
6. An example network stream would be like the following:
http://76.76.18.109:8874 or icyx://76.76.18.109:8874
7. On a scale from 1 to 10, I have enough experience with C and C++ to rate myself
as an 8 out of 10 (non-specialized code development ability...both Windows & Linux).
So if I happen to get enough detail info on where to extract this, then I am sure I can
take it from that point and run with it.
8. I welcome any constructive comments of any kind, to include alternative
approaches.
Thank you,
Ai Pragma
I'm a newbie to this forum, and so I am not sure how to go about getting assistance on this.
Let me describe what I would like to be able to do:
1. Whenever you open a network stream in VLC (in the default skin), the status bar, at the
bottom of the VLC window, updates with the name of the network stream, and most often
with the name of the song being played.
2. What I would like to do is to be able to capture just the song title (that's it). I am not
attempting to save the audio stream to a file.
3. Since VLC source code is open source, I would like to isolate the code that extracts
this info from the network stream.
4. I have more or less isolated the function call to update the status bar, but that is not
the most effective way of extracting the song title (in my opinion). I am needing
assistance in isolating the function call that extracts the song title info from the
network stream, before sending it to the gui call to update the status bar.
5. I have more or less isolated the possible code module that handles the kind of
audio streams I am interested in, which I believe it to be the "FAAD" module.
6. An example network stream would be like the following:
http://76.76.18.109:8874 or icyx://76.76.18.109:8874
7. On a scale from 1 to 10, I have enough experience with C and C++ to rate myself
as an 8 out of 10 (non-specialized code development ability...both Windows & Linux).
So if I happen to get enough detail info on where to extract this, then I am sure I can
take it from that point and run with it.
8. I welcome any constructive comments of any kind, to include alternative
approaches.
Thank you,
Ai Pragma