GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 350595
support for nsc multicast playlist format from Microsoft
Last modified: 2013-08-22 18:00:31 UTC
There is a playlist format called NSC from Microsoft for multicast streams. JLJ have implemented it and put up some code in his blog: http://nanocrew.net/?p=128 There is a test stream from Virgin radio available at: http://www.smgradio.com/core/audio/wmp/vruk_vr_multicast.nsc
The code for VLC is at: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/trunk/modules/demux/nsc.c
*** Bug 397048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From bug 397048: Steps to reproduce: 0) Load http://www.hetgroteongeduld.be/homehgo.html 1) Click on "Films on-line" in the top navbar 2) Choose any one "Bekijk deze films (1Mbps) / Windows media player" links from the main frame Results: Doesn't play. [...] ** Message: NewStream mimetype 'video/x-ms-asf' URL 'http://www.castgate.net/grootongeduld/nsc/HGO2006Fict.asx' ** Message: Should be dual type 'audio/x-ms-asx', making sure now ** Message: Is dual type 'audio/x-ms-asx' ** Message: Is playlist; need to wait for the file to be downloaded completely ** Message: StreamAsFile filename '/tmp/etmp/mozilla/epiphany/Cache/81693B71d01' ** Message: Setting the current playlist to '/tmp/etmp/mozilla/epiphany/Cache/81693B71d01' uri 'http://www.castgate.net/grootongeduld/nsc/HGO2006Fict.asx' base-uri 'http://www.castgate.net/grootongeduld/nsc/HGO2006Fict.asx' ** Message: DestroyStream reason 0 ** Message: URLNotify URL 'http://www.castgate.net/grootongeduld/nsc/HGO2006Fict.asx' reason 0 added URI 'http://www.castgate.net/grootongeduld/nsc/HGO2006Fict.nsc' with title 'empty' genre '(null)' ** Message: totem_embedded_open_internal 'http://www.castgate.net/grootongeduld/nsc/HGO2006Fict.nsc' is-browser-stream 0 ** Message: BEFORE _open
More NSC streams at http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/streams.html
Further info and test streams from Virgin: http://www.virginradio.co.uk/about_us/technology_services/multicast/index.html
In shared-mime-info: 2007-08-28 Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> * freedesktop.org.xml.in: Split out *.nsc into its own mime-type, as we'd like GStreamer to handle it directly, rather than us Confusing mime-type name from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Station * tests/*: Add an ASX playlist and an NSC stream description In Totem: 2007-08-28 Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> * data/mime-type-list.txt: add application/x-netshow-channel as a supported mime-type * src/plparse/totem-pl-parser-wm.c: (totem_pl_parser_add_asf_parser): Make NSC files unhandled by the playlist parsers, as GStreamer is supposed to handle it (Helps: #350595) This is a service description file, like SDP files, so GStreamer should handle it internally. Moving there.
Should this block against (or be marked as a duplicate) or the playlist support bug (#336951 and #478564) ?
I don't think this is "playlist support" per se. SDP files are handled through a SDP demuxer, so should NSC files. I'm not sure that those are prevalent anymore though, and I've received no reports that they're used anywhere else. Won't fix?
Yeah, let's close this.