mediaplayer unable to play .m3u files (easy)

[the ringmaster]

When I try to play a Jamendo .m3u file, the mediaplayer gives an error and crashes. I have attached a screenshot of the problem. The .m3u file contains:

#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:206,...si no vuela
#EXTALBUMARTURL:http://imgjam.com/albums/s76/76006/covers/1.200.jpg
http://stream28.jamendo.com/stream/656339/mp31/01%20-%20borriqueros%20-%20...si%20no%20vuela.mp3?u=0&h=26aa290ffe
#EXTINF:296,miss manias
#EXTALBUMARTURL:http://imgjam.com/albums/s76/76006/covers/1.200.jpg
http://stream28.jamendo.com/stream/656340/mp31/02%20-%20borriqueros%20-%20miss%20manias.mp3?u=0&h=0162c25a67
#EXTINF:298,en mis 13
#EXTALBUMARTURL:http://imgjam.com/albums/s76/76006/covers/1.200.jpg
http://stream28.jamendo.com/stream/656341/mp31/03%20-%20borriqueros%20-%20en%20mis%2013.mp3?u=0&h=4fc7739208
#EXTINF:171,euphoria
#EXTALBUMARTURL:http://imgjam.com/albums/s76/76006/covers/1.200.jpg
http://stream28.jamendo.com/stream/656337/mp31/04%20-%20borriqueros%20-%20euphoria.mp3?u=0&h=e0ca5a7abb
#EXTINF:214,en su intención
#EXTALBUMARTURL:http://imgjam.com/albums/s76/76006/covers/1.200.jpg
http://stream28.jamendo.com/stream/656338/mp31/05%20-%20borriqueros%20-%20en%20su%20intencion.mp3?u=0&h=0e246ad44e

[stippi]

MediaPlayer does not yet support streaming, but the crash should not happen indeed.

[halilpk]

Haiku revision: hrev42211 still a bug. The system opens m3u files with StyledEdit App.You can't open it with MediaPlayer . System: Haiku hrev1-alpha3 on VMware workstation 8 on windows 7 32 bit

[pulkomandy]

Can't reproduce the crash. Things are not going too well however:

• We don't even parse the M3U file. Supporting that and adding the items to the playlist would be nice, even if we can't play them
• When run from Terminal, with the m3u file as an argumen, MediaPlayer shows the BAlert saying it can't play it. The main window doesn't come up, but the application continues running.

[pulkomandy]

(In #9567) This is the (basic) m3u playlist format. So a duplicate of #6670.

[jakob]

Hi, I'm interested in working on this ticket.

Replying to pulkomandy:

Can't reproduce the crash. Things are not going too well however:

• We don't even parse the M3U file. Supporting that and adding the items to the playlist would be nice, even if we can't play them
• When run from Terminal, with the m3u file as an argumen, MediaPlayer shows the BAlert saying it can't play it. The main window doesn't come up, but the application continues running.

Is this description of M3U support still current? I've tried to access a few streams and ran into an OOM each time, which I'd imagine is an issue in and of itself, but I'm interested in whether or not MediaPlayer can at least add items from the M3U to the playlist.

[pulkomandy]

Things have changed since 4 years ago, as now we have actual streaming support. I suggest trying:

• An m3u file which plays local files (to work without streams, first)
• An m3u file which plays online music (Jamendo if they still offer that feature, or some other website, or create an m3u pointing to http files)

And see what happens.

Note that Jamendo files are not streaming, there is just one track in each entry. This is different from webradios, which usually also offer an m3u file, but the content is a single mp3 (or other) url that plays a continuous stream of music. We should handle both cases, but currently I think the first will work better.

[waddlesplash]

hrev53037 implements loading an M3U with entries pointing to local files; it does not yet support M3Us with URLs. Supporting this will probably not be too difficult however.

[xray7224]

I've got a patch which fixes this ​https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/4050

[korli]

Patch applied in hrev55165. This was the last part of the ticket.