[Live-devel] What tools shall I use in this situation?

[Ross Finlayson]

>I am modifying Live.Com codes to support m-to-1 streaming (distributed 
>streaming, multiple streamers try to stream different data to the 
>receiver, and the receiver will group data locally).
>Currently, I am partially done with MP3 ADU streamer and receiver. My boss 
>asked me to give a real-time playback demo to him: a Winamp-like player is 
>needed to play back the under-receiving MP3 file.

Are you aware of the existing "in_rtp.dll" Winamp plugin, which will play 
MP3/RTP streams (including those using the ADU-based RTP payload format): 
<http://www.live.com/multikit/winamp-plugin.html>?

>Anyone can give any suggestion on such a player that it can read local 
>file from time to time (which grows as streaming progress), and play back 
>the Mp3?

I suggest looking at "VLC" <http://www.videolan.org/> and MPlayer 
<http://www.live.com/mplayer/>


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
	<http://www.live.com/>