Need Flash player for HTTP streaming audio

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I’m not a Flash developer, but here’s my predicament: My company uses Instant Teleseminar, which, despite its name, allows you to conduct webinars. The webinar has a webcast for the audio, and Instant Teleseminar provides a Flash player to embed in your page (with an iframe… geh!) for participants.

I want to use my own Flash player (or just a better one) to connect to the webcast audio, but I’m not sure how. They say their audio stream is just an mp3 streamed over HTTP. I’ve tried connecting to it with Flowplayer, which I use for videos on my site, and indeed it fails using RTMP protocol.

What Flash player can I use to connect to this? The URL of the audio itself comes in the format http://webcast.nfinite.com/<event#>.mp3?StreamLive, and if I visit that directly it works via HTML5 (in Safari, at least). But I still need a Flash player… any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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Try JWPlayer. However, note that it’s not free for commercial use.

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I looked at JWPlayer, but from what I could see in the examples it seemed like people were streaming audio with RTMP.

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A quick google search brought up this: http://ffmp3.sourceforge.net/

I’m not sure if it will work without running a shoutcast

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Yeah, I saw that too, and it seems to be only for shoutcast and icecast, which have their proprietary streaming protocols, so I didn’t mess with it. Thanks, though. I don’t really know how HTTP streaming works… I would think it’d be simple though. Any other suggestions?

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Why are you trying to use rtmp for an http stream? They’re entirely different protocols. For an http stream, use http in flowplayer/jwplayer.

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Well, that’s what I already said: RTMP and HTTP don’t combine. I was only aware of the option to use RTMP in Flowplayer for streaming audio. How do I connect to an HTTP audio stream in Flowplayer?

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I figured it out with Flowplayer. They don’t explicitly say it on the flowplayer site, but it seems that all you need to do to connect to a regular HTTP audio stream is to add ‘live: true’ to the ‘clip’ node in the configuration. Thanks to EastCoast for pointing me in the right direction.