I'm experimenting with sending album art in an Shoutcast stream.
I installed WinAmp, and a winamp plugin "Source DSP" to encode mp3 files to send them to a Shoutcast v2.51 server.
The DSP source encoder is configured to send album artwork embedded in the stream to any client player.
I used VLC 3.0.3 Vetinari to open network stream to localhost:8000 and I can listen to the stream, audio = good.
I can use VLC Messages with Verbosity 2 (debug), but the only messages i see are metadata updates on song changes:
The log on the shoutcast server show tha tit is "sending" artwork:http debug: New Icy-Title=A Guy Called Gerald - Fever (Black Dog Mix)
2018-08-17 15:24:19 INFO [SRC 127.0.0.1:52244 sid=1] Title update [A Guy Called Gerald - Fever (Black Dog Mix)]
2018-08-17 15:24:19 INFO [SRC 127.0.0.1:52244 sid=1] Playing artwork update [mime=image/jpeg, 33807 bytes]
I know when VLC opens a local mp3 or mp4 file that has album artwork embedded in the file, the album artwork displays in VLC
However, in my experiments, this concept of displaying artowrk embedded in a stream does not appear to be a feature.
Any comments are appreciated, I haven't found much help on the webs about this concept.
I don't know if there are any other players that can display images embedded in a stream, I rate VLC the best player so I thought it would have this capability.
EDIT:
DOH. I love how writing out my question helps the mind think up new ideas!
I had an idea for HTML5 Audio object image, and foudn this javascript library:
http://web.ist.utl.pt/antonio.afonso/ww ... /id3/#demo
It says the frame would be named "APIC/PIC: Attached picture"
Is there anyway to get VLC to be able to debug the contents of that frame?
I'll try that javascript library over the weekend to see if I get anywhere with it...