How to stream directly from PC to Pulse Flex 2i in LAN?

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Klaus Mueller

Hi everybody,

just received and set up my new Pulse Flex 2i. So far it works fine with local music files on my NAS or my PC. And also plays music from "Paradise Radio".

But how can I realize the following:

On my PC I start VLC and start some video. VLC allows to stream the video by using "transcoding" to MP3 into the LAN. How can I catch this stream in my Pulse Flex?

VLC is able to stream in http, rtfs,rdp, udp, or Icecast. How to receive streams directly from VLC in my LAN?

TiA

Kind Regards,

Klaus

 

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    Tony W.
    Product Support Manager

    Hi Klaus

    This is not supported. Sorry...

  • Klaus Mueller

    Nobody an idea? Doesn't it work?

    I found an older post here in the community where someone said he set up an audio source in his WLAN, and it could be accessed via the TuneIn manual URL entry.

    I tried to set up an NGINX http-server serving an M3U playlist file. It could be accessed from the PULSE, but the error message was "Remote source stream is empty" (or similar).

    So, can anybody briefly exlain which kind of audio source is expected from the PULSE?

     

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  • Klaus Mueller

    Hi Tony,

    thanks for your reply. In the community I found the following post:

    https://support1.bluesound.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360032902373-Doesn-t-play-from-http-192-168-26-122-8000

    It says:

    "We have an internal streaming source set up at URL http://192.168.26.122:8000. The streaming works through other apps like VLC. And it worked with our previously owned SONOS system."

    Therefore I guess it is somehow possible to provide an audio stream "internally" and have it received by the BlueSound box.

    The original poster in the mentioned post ends up with: "Thany you Tony. We added a mountpoint (stream file) and it's working now."

    Is there any documentation showing the format of such "stream file"?

    It woud help.

    Thanks and best regards,

    Klaus

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  • Klaus Mueller

    Hi everybody,

    just want to say I succeeded finally. For those who are interested how it works, here just a small description.

    • Start VLC, open the streaming menu (e.g. by keying Ctrl+S)
    • Add your media files you want to be played by your BlueSound player
    • Click "Stream", then "next"
    • In the tab "stream target" select "http", then "add"
    • Leave the port as "8080" or set it to your required one
    • In the "path" you MUST (!) specify a valid path and also a file name for your streaming file (which will be generated by VLC during the streaming process). E.g. call it "/var/audio.mp3". Note that hte specified path must exist, whereas the file itself needs not to be there, because VLC generates it.
    • In the next tab you specify the transcoding option. Just select "Audio - MP3". This means VLC will extract only the audio track of your media source file and transcode it to audio format MP3.
    • Click "next", then "Stream".

    From now on VLC will play your media file and also stream it to the specified path and file (e.g. /var/audio.mp3).

    In your BlueSound controller just go to TuneIn and enter your favourite custom URL:

    htttp://<ip address of your VLC computer>:8080/var/audio.mp3

    (Or use the port you specified above)

    Enjoy.

    Rgds.

    Klaus.

     

     

     

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