How do Virgin Radio get their radio to work on a PS3 or Wii?

[danrok]

Does anyone know exactly how Virgin Radio have done this?

Most internet radio doesn't work on the PS3 web browser, e.g. ShoutCast/WinAmp based stations.

I'm guessing that they're streaming it as a video, since most video streams are supported, flash?

Anyone know what they're doing?

Listen on your Playstation3 or your Wii - Virgin Radio

[Aedan]

Dunno - got a PS3 and a PC? Fancy doing some decoding work?

[danrok]

I have both yes.

[Daniel ~]

Thanks Dan! Another completely useful piece of information! ":O}

[danrok]

Aedan has pointed me in the right direction...

[Aedan]

Well, I've pointed you in a direction. Dunno if it's the right one yet!

[danrok]

Same link is used whether tuning in on a PC or PS3, have only had a poke around on my PC, and that uses RTSP protocol. May be the same for PS3, but still need to hook that up to the PC...

[johnmartin]

Hello, I'm the developer at Virgin Radio who wrote the player and I can tell you that:

- We use an Icecast mp3 streaming server
- A simple Flash file to stream the mp3 stream

However, there is a bug in doing this: the wii runs out of memory very quickly as the version of flash on the wii keeps the stream data within it's memory (rubs). There are 2 ways that we have found around this: Server software (a linux version of a flash streaming server (sorry can't remember the name of it)) and flash software (every 2 minutes the flash player resets the memory of the MP3 stream by re-buffering the stream in the background).

Hope this is all of help,
John Martin - Developer Virgin Radio

[Favu]

Whoa! Now that really is news you can use, right there.

Thank you Mr Martin!

[danrok]

Very helpful thanks!