Is there a flash player that could handle all of the formats mentioned above. Or different players that could handle it?
Is it for streaming or for files played in one piece?
Daniel Mošmondor
2009-09-01 18:44:53
You just give it a URL and it plays. Which means that if the URL is a buffered stream of mp3, it handles it just fine. Play with it - it's brain dead simple. I didn't write, btw. I've just used it.
psychotik
2009-09-01 19:56:11
+1
A:
SHOUTcast can be handled, but not very well. Flash can fetch a shouted stream, but only as a plain MP3-over-HTTP request, so you don't get the chunked metadata. And because Flash is fetching a stream as a whole file, memory fills up with the fetched MP3. You can work around it by switching to a new stream every so often, disgarding the old stream data, but this can leave a little desynchronisation on each reseek.
I've used minicaster for this before.
I don't know of anything that'd play AAC or WMA. Flash 10 gives you direct access to audio output, which would allow you to write/port an AAC or WMA decoder in ActionScript, but the performance would be terrible.
bobince
2009-09-01 19:03:07
+3
A:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/hd%5Fvideo%5Fflash%5Fplayer.html explains Flash 9's h.264 and aac support. Presumably Flash can play aac audio without h.264 video. Someone wrote an ogg vorbis player in Flash (http://drawlogic.com/2008/10/04/as3-fvorbis-flash-ogg-vorbis-player/) and the performance was acceptable. It's not written in ActionScript. It's written in a different language that compiles to Flash-compatible bytecode.
If you want to play wma, look no further than Silverlight. http://silverlight.net/forums/p/2786/7569.aspx lists all the supported codecs. Silverlight 3 also allows you to write your own audio codecs in managed code.
JOrbis is a Java applet that can play ogg/vorbis including internet radio.
joeforker
2009-09-09 15:22:09