the solution for unsupported streaming multimedia formats is presently either to:
1. use a fifo as the input file and feed the compressed data into the fifo from your streamer. this is not officially supported, but I am told it probably will work, so long as you never let the fifo run out of data.
2. implement a lightweight streaming proxy as part of your app which unwraps the incomping stream and then re-wraps it in a supported streamer format (http live streaming for example). then point mm-renderer to the local url.
3. implement your own streamer and decoder, and simply play out raw PCM samples via libasound or similar.
If none of these will work for you, then you will just have to wait until additional streamers are supported, or until a more flexible API is available. Right now we have only a high-level mm-renderer interface, and a low-level PCM interface. There is an intermediate layer, but it is not available publicly, because it is not formalized, and changes regularly -- this layer is the backend side of mm-renderer. Access to all of the decoder blocks is part of the intermediate layer, so they are not available for direct use today. In the future, there will be more detailed interfaces (similar to openmax for example), but not at launch.
Cheers,
Sean
