API for DaCast or other video stream

[johngrant]

I have a broadcast radio partner who has opted to use DaCast for online streaming.  Is anyone aware of an API that converts that to a direct stream URL I can stream?  Thanks.

 

[djsoft]

I have a broadcast radio partner who has opted to use DaCast for online streaming.  Is anyone aware of an API that converts that to a direct stream URL I can stream?  Thanks.

You can inspect the HTML code for web player that plays the stream, there's a good chance that you'll find direct stream address there.

 

[johngrant]

Here it is.  See anything promising?

view-source:http://iframe.dacast.com/b/15706/c/37318

 

[djsoft]

Here it is.  See anything promising?

No... I'd suggest you to contact them and ask for stream address.

 

[johngrant]

I had a virtual machine created that launches a browser and runs that dacast player.  It creates a local stream which I am trying to run in the Scheduler. It runs fine for about two minutes then I get a network timeout.  The stream is created on a local machine.  Thoughts?

 

[djsoft]

I had a virtual machine created that launches a browser and runs that dacast player.  It creates a local stream which I am trying to run in the Scheduler. It runs fine for about two minutes then I get a network timeout.  The stream is created on a local machine.  Thoughts?

You need to investigate what exactly happens. E.g. if it's a web player that stops working, or the stream terminates (check the server logs).