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To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
From: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@lvn.com>
Subject: Re: Xing Streamworks Player
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At 02:33 PM 11/7/96 -0500, Charles Henrich wrote:
>> Have you tuned in the KissFM 112kbps on the MBone? That4s the high quality
>> one should be looking for.
>
>I've bene listening to kissFM direct, but the mbone stream isnt there..  (i.e.
>it times out)

It turns out that the streamworks player - unlike "vat" and most other MBone
tools - doesn't accept group address/port arguments on the command line.
(This is true for the Windows 95 version, at least.)  Instead, you have to
write this information into a file, and then launch "swplayer" with this
filename as argument:

E.g., create a file "kissfm.ply"
Write to this file the single line:

stream=xdma://224.42.42.4:8153/

(substitute the actual group address:port if different)

Then run:

        swplayer kissfm.ply

(Thanks to the folks at Telecom Finland for telling me about this.)

        Ross.