Links

nicam · Post by **nicam** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:21 pm

how do i get my link like this i have seen it done before;
http://username:[email protected]:8000/;stream.nsv

can any one help me please

nicam · Post by **nicam** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:00 pm

and can you please tell me how to add the user name and password through the admin control panel, and what form the link will be in wen i do this,

Thanks, Nicam

Post by **Jay** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:41 pm

you have 3 options when giving your viewers a link.

If you want to place authentication in the hands of their media player. Both Winamp and Windows Media Player support this for sure. Other players may as well. Simply provide them a typical link to the stream. Either by using the internal playlist generator of steamcast (links can be found on the home page of the admin interface. Or by directly inputting the address of the stream in the player. Such as http://someaddress:8000/live.mp3

If you want to hand off direct links (player would not ask user for authentication then simply give them http://username:password@someaddress:8000/live.mp3
This will also require that the player support http authentication.

If a player does not have either option available or does not support http auth then you can have them directly open a stream to http://someaddress:8000/live.mp3?user=u ... s=password

No matter what player type they have they should be able to use one of the links above to get to your stream. The last link is an absolute last resort because it sends unmasked user and pass data across the network and is generally consider insecure.

To add users to the system in realtime via the web panel simply click on the User Table link blow the current stats table.

nicam · Post by **nicam** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:26 am

I tried that and it dosent work for me

right i put nicam in the user but and my password in the password bit, what gose in the mount, i am using NSVCap to stream video.

Thanks, Nicam

nicam · Post by **nicam** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:32 am

And do i need to change anything in the config file

Post by **Jay** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:46 am

steamcast is not totally like shoutcast in this way. Each stream has a mount. If you don't know your mount, simply open the steamcast config file and look for SourceMount= the text to the right is your mount.

You can also read more on mounts and multiple mounts in the documentation section of this site.