Using Quicktime to stream live internet content?

Question

I've read the tutorial for both Quicktime 6 and 7 here, and anything else I could find about this, so please forgive me if this is a silly, or redundant question.
I've been trying to use Quicktime to embed a shoutcast stream for listeners who don't have access to, or aren't technically savy enough to open iTunes and type in a URL (there are a surprising number of these people.)
After reading several tutoirals, it seemed like the process would be quite simple. Open a new Quicktime player, connect to the playlist, save, and then link to or embed the file into an html document.
Another method was to embed the stream's IP itself using the same technique, only specify that the plugin is Quicktime.
These work. However, they don't work very well.
The stream is fine. Listening within Quicktime itself is fine. Listening with iTunes is fine. However, when listening through a browser the audio is jittery, and seems to skip quite a bit.
Here's my code:
[object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="300" height="25" VIEWASTEXT]
[param name="src" value="http://69.93.28.61:8025/listen.pls"]
[param name="controller" value="true"]
[param name="autostart" value="false"]
[param name="qtsrcchokespeed" value="33600"]
[/object]
Has anyone gotten this to work smoothly?
Would you be willing to share how you did it?

Answer 1

Funny, I've given the same advice to so many people.
I thought that a week was enough time to assume no reply would be forthcoming.
color me mistaken!
I have actually solved this problem.
here's what was wrong and how I solved it:
1. The above code does work, in that it loads a quicktime player, and will play the stream.
However, the reliability and quality are quite poor.
2. Disable and intro or outro mp3 file you may have set up to play on your broadcast. At least under shoutcast, this is a source of many errors in terms of establishing a connection with Quicktime, and then suddenly changing the content, bitrate, sample rate and often the content tag.
3. link to a quicktime file using the QTSRC tag.
this will tell quicktime that regardless of your ultimate conent (real time live stream which is theoretically not supported) that you want the browser plugin to use quicktime anyway.
Example Code:
[OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="25" ]
[PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="http://shoutcastip:port/listen.pls" ]
[PARAM NAME="autoplay" VALUE="false" ]
[EMBED PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"
SRC="/quicktimefile_with_your_stream_embedded_init.mov" TYPE="image/x-quicktime"
WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="25"
QTSRC="http://shoutcastip:port/listen.pls"
AUTOPLAY="flase" ]
[/EMBED]
[/OBJECT]
This is currently up and working fairly well.
Thanks for your reply.