Streaming Audio MMS:// to the iPhone

iphone streaming mms
Redth picture Redth · Aug 10, 2009 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I'd like to stream a mms:// url to my iPhone app, but so far information on the topic is hard to come by. I know there are a couple apps out there that can do it already (FStream, WunderRadio, Tuner), and I've read a few notes about them possibly using libmms and ffmpeg to accomplish this task.

Does anyone know of a way to achieve this? Is there a library out there that I'm missing, or some example to do this already? I was hoping this was going to be as easy as a simple

[someLibrary streamMMSUrl:@"mms://mymmsurlhere.com"]

Thanks for any help!

Answer

pjay_ picture pjay_ · Jan 5, 2010

You can use the libmms library to read MMS or MMS over HTTP streams. This is not straightforward but some existing apps (and FStream probably) use this approach. To get libmms working on the iPhone, you can find some informations on the WunderRadio site : http://www.wunderradio.com/code.html.

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