Picking up a stream

I'm not sure where to put this post so I guess I'll stick it
here. I work at an internet radio company and would like to make a
player that can pick up our stream. Ultimately the player will be
on the website and our listeners will be able to download the
player and use it. I'm a novice flash user and have run in to the
problem of how to make the player pick up the stream and play it.
The stream is a windows encoded stream if that matters. I guess I
just need to know what the actionscript would be to pick up the
stream... our stream runs to spacialaudio.com and they handle our
bandwidth. I have the URL for the stream but I just don't know how
to make the actionscript that would pick that stream up and play
it. Any help would be appreciated. I have flash cs3

Hi Sha33,
It seems like you are using the loops to essentially act as a trigger for the generation of your pulse. I think you will be better off if you use a counter task and set up the triggers in hardware. You can create a counter task that has an initial delay of 30 seconds, meaning that it will wait 30 seconds before starting. Once that task starts it generates a pulse train that you can define by the number of ticks, high time/low time etc. As soon as the pulse generation is done it goes back and waits for 30 more seconds. There is an example in the NI Example finder called Gen Dig Pulse-Retriggerable.vi. Go to the example finder and search for trigger or triggering to find that example. You migh also consider posting this question on the DAQ forums to get further help implementing this in hardware, which I think will be substantially easier than trying to use timed loops to act as timers for you hardware. Thanks and have a great day.
Stephen S.
National Instruments
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