FirePlay Flash client for FireFly

[Bo Mellberg]

Done!

[sonichouse]

@Bo Mellberg wrote:

Done!

Game over, ran out of memory.

Oh well

[EVILRipper]

Heh, guess the PSP just isn’t made to stream music over network..
It would’ve made the excellent video streamer though, since I have the PSP Slim with a TV out cable…

Too bad for that idea. 🙂

[Bo Mellberg]

@EVILRipper wrote:

Heh, guess the PSP just isn’t made to stream music over network..
It would’ve made the excellent video streamer though, since I have the PSP Slim with a TV out cable…

Too bad for that idea. 🙂

Well, this app does it from an iTunes server using RSS-feeds:

http://skattertech.com/2006/04/stream-itunes-library-to-psp/

So I guess it’s Flash’s fault we can’t get it to work. Wanna try unbuffered?

[sonichouse]

@Bo Mellberg wrote:

@EVILRipper wrote:

Heh, guess the PSP just isn’t made to stream music over network..
It would’ve made the excellent video streamer though, since I have the PSP Slim with a TV out cable…

Too bad for that idea. 🙂

Well, this app does it from an iTunes server using RSS-feeds:

http://skattertech.com/2006/04/stream-itunes-library-to-psp/

So I guess it’s Flash’s fault we can’t get it to work. Wanna try unbuffered?

I use Location Free client on the PSP and that streams TV like a dream.

[Bo Mellberg]

Can you stream from a browser directly using rsp queries?

[sonichouse]

@Bo Mellberg wrote:

Can you stream from a browser directly using rsp queries?

Can you remind me of the syntax please ?

nevermind found it — server:port/rsp/stream/

Asks if I want to save file to the /MUSIC folder

[EVILRipper]

Heh. Opening that URL actually results a plain MP3 song for download. The main reason is for media players like Winamp, iTunes and VLC to “play while downloading” aka stream. Since the PSP has no “streaming player” we’d have to write our own. For example, in flash. (*hint*FirePlay*hint*)

But FirePlay doesnt seem to work decently on a PSP. It runs out of memory. How can downloading a 4MB song make a PSP run out of memory? I guess there is some memory leaks? Or maybe previous played songs were not cleared? Only Bo knows, since he is the creator.

I’m just convinced a PSP has more than 4MB cache. Especially after seeing what games it plays. Also, the other link proved it is possible. And I bet we’re not limited to music.

Imagine hooking up your PSP to your TV, streaming video from your local firefly server, wireless. *continues to drool*

[Bo Mellberg]

Well, the tests are made without FirePlay being involved at all. All FPtest.swf does is testing the xml querys by asking for /rsp/info, then starting the stream of id 2736 using:

var	my_sound:Sound = new Sound();

my_sound.loadSound(serverstring + "/rsp/stream/" + songinfo["id"], true);

The “true” above means that Flash starts playback even though the file has not been completely buffered, aka some sort of “streaming”.

There are no other songs, lists or objects loaded.

[Bo Mellberg]

According to this link:

http://files.psphacks.net/details.php?file=93

the mp3’s on the PSP needs to be decompressed in full before the can start playing. This means that a 2.5 MB mp3 takes up 2.5 + ~15 MB. The Flash player for PSP needs to solve this streaming mp3 issue before we can continue development targeted for the PSP.

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