No it's a cookie that you get upon passage of username and login. That auth token is part of the URL that you get when a channel is selected.
If you enter that URL into a web browser within Windows, it'll pop up Windows media player and play the URL - I can confirm that. Will see if there's a way around this. -Rob On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]>wrote: > When you say 'cookie', do you mean a real cookie, or are you referring to > the auth token in the URL you mentioned earlier? > Have you tried entering that URL into a freshly launched webbrowser on your > desktop, and did it work? > Either way, I'm pretty sure that OpenCore is not going to work with an MMS: > URL. > > > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Rob Franz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes - I get through the authentication and that works with no problems - >> after the authentication (and you get a cookie) you can select a channel to >> listen to, which are just HTTP gets. You just pass the cookie each time. >> When you send the get, you'll get the address of an mms:// feed. >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Marco Nelissen <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Doesn't that certain satellite radio online streaming audio service >>> require that you authenticate in some way before accessing the stream? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Rob Franz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> It's hard to say what's being rejected... I have tried putting rtsp:// >>>> instead of mms:// but that doesn't seem to work. >>>> Basically I'm trying to emulate another program that runs on Windows >>>> that logs into a certain satellite radio online streaming audio service >>>> (should be pretty easy to guess what it is :) and initiates a streaming >>>> audio session when a user picks a channel. It's RTSP with a RTP payload >>>> which mediaplayer should support. >>>> >>>> It's just a question of getting the data and playing it. Unfortunately >>>> the media player doesn't seem to throw up meaningful log information... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Dave Sparks >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I'm pretty sure that OpenCore is going to reject the mms URI. >>>>> >>>>> On Feb 13, 8:57 pm, Rob Franz <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > I believe this is WMA on the other end. Does this present a problem? >>>>> > >>>>> > On Feb 13, 2009 11:13 PM, "Rob Franz" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > Hi all >>>>> > I'm trying to get an RTSP stream going with a verified source - I >>>>> know >>>>> > there's something on the other end in this case. >>>>> > >>>>> > However, the format of the URL is like this: >>>>> > >>>>> > mms:// >>>>> > >>>>> a757.l1265761171.c12657.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/757/12657/v0001/reflector:61171?auth=daEdLa4adcAc2aoc1bYceclcFcQdfbwckcA-bjLJ8.-b4-NvGjptD >>>>> > >>>>> > I admit I'm new to RTSP in general but I think I understand how it >>>>> > works - for my purposes, all I need to do is pass the RTSP URL to the >>>>> > mediaPlayer.setDataSource() method, prepare it, and start. That >>>>> > should be pretty much it, if I understand correctly. >>>>> > >>>>> > No matter what I do, I always get "Prepare failed.: >>>>> > status=0xFFFFFFFC" ,etc. I try to modify different things, but I can >>>>> > never prepare the stream, and so I can't start it. >>>>> > >>>>> > Does the above URL qualify as an rtsp stream (i.e. remove the mms and >>>>> > put in rtsp)? >>>>> > >>>>> > As I understood it, RTSP obsoleted MMS, and MMS has been completely >>>>> > phased out, but apparently some services are still passing out that >>>>> > URL. >>>>> > >>>>> > Anyone seen anything like this before? >>>>> > >>>>> > Thanks >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
