# Playing mpeg radio station on PS4 **URL:** \ **Category:** FMOD Engine\ **Tags:** ue4, ps5\ **Created:** [December 4, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368 "2024-12-04T10:08:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stargx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@stargx](https://qa.fmod.com/u/stargx)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/1 "2024-12-04T10:08:06Z")
Hi, I’m tyring to play a radio stream on PS4, but I’m getting a FMOD\_ERR\_FORMAT error from system-\>playSound(…). The stream is mpeg. Is there something I need to enable on PS4 to get this to work? Here’s the url: [yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=99497996](http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=99497996) Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Connor\_FMOD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/connor_fmod/32/3685_2.png) [@Connor\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Connor_FMOD)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2024, 11:53pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/2 "2024-12-04T23:53:43Z")
Hi, Thanks for sharing the link. Testing it in our examples: `fmodstudioapi20225ps4_sdk11.500-installer_147358\api\core\examples\vs2019\examples.sln` → `net_stream` I was able to hear the stream on our test machine. Could I please grab some more info: - FMOD Studio and integration versions - Unreal Engine version exactly ---
**Author:** ![stargx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@stargx](https://qa.fmod.com/u/stargx)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/3 "2024-12-05T09:34:38Z")
Thanks for testing. I’m on Unreal 4.27 and FMOD studio api 2019 ps4 sdk 10.500 ---
**Author:** ![Connor\_FMOD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/connor_fmod/32/3685_2.png) [@Connor\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Connor_FMOD)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 3:29am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/4 "2024-12-06T03:29:26Z")
Thank you for the information. Just to confirm the FMOD version, was it `2.02.19`? As we don’t have `SDK 10.500` available on our download page. It can be confirmed in UE by checking the about FMOD under the `Help` toolbar: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/6/6cda266feb70803e56b14dafd9cbaaf91b6c1467.jpeg) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/2/2b9ed26488f1b15afe60bcf096685f8c6a7a27b7.png). ---
**Author:** ![stargx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@stargx](https://qa.fmod.com/u/stargx)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 9:55am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/5 "2024-12-06T09:55:19Z")
Ah, thanks. I’m on 2.02.19 ---
**Author:** ![Connor\_FMOD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/connor_fmod/32/3685_2.png) [@Connor\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Connor_FMOD)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/6 "2024-12-09T00:27:20Z")
Thanks for confirming that. Can you confirm where you downlaoded the integration from for SDK `10.500`? I cannot find it on our downlaod page: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/b/b6dc7e680562aa93452cd6a55ce1728a8f472cc9.png) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![stargx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@stargx](https://qa.fmod.com/u/stargx)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/7 "2024-12-09T10:04:19Z")
![FMOD sdk](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/0/007c01ef54884d0aaaf0074822faf955df08bebf.jpeg) Ah, so I’m not sure now. I have FMOD Engine for PlayStation 4 (SDK 10.500) - See screen shot. But I’m not sure I used that. I also have fmodstudio20219ue4.27ps4\_sdk9.000.zip (See bottom of screen shot) So I could be on SDK 9.000. Does that sound right? ---
**Author:** ![Connor\_FMOD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/connor_fmod/32/3685_2.png) [@Connor\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Connor_FMOD)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/8 "2024-12-10T04:15:15Z")
Hi, that does sound right. Thank you for confirming that. Would it be possible to share the code you are using to play the stream in your Unreal project? ---
**Author:** ![stargx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@stargx](https://qa.fmod.com/u/stargx)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2024, 1:32pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/9 "2024-12-10T13:32:01Z")
Sure, here is my code. I’ve squished it into 1 function and checked it still comes up with the same error: ```auto void Caudio::init() { // init core api FMOD_RESULT result; result = FMOD::System_Create(&system); // Create the main system object. if (result != FMOD_OK) { showError("System_Create", result); return; } // Set the DSP buffer size to 1024 samples unsigned int bufferLength = 1024; // Number of samples per DSP processing callback int numBuffers = 4; // Number of buffers (default is usually 4) result = system->setDSPBufferSize(bufferLength, numBuffers); if (result != FMOD_OK) { showError("setDSPBufferSize", result); return; } result = system->init(512, FMOD_INIT_NORMAL, 0); // Initialize FMOD. if (result != FMOD_OK) { showError("system->init", result); return; } // Create music group system->createChannelGroup("BHMusic", &musicChannelGroup); // Test play radio station result = system->createStream("http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=99497996", FMOD_DEFAULT, NULL, &musicSound); if (result != FMOD_OK) { showError("playMusicW HTTP", result); return; } result = system->playSound(musicSound, musicChannelGroup, false, &musicChannel); if (result != FMOD_OK) { showError("playMusicW - PlaySound", result); return; } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![Connor\_FMOD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/connor_fmod/32/3685_2.png) [@Connor\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Connor_FMOD)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2024, 5:09am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/10 "2024-12-17T05:09:08Z")
Thank you for the code. Could you please try updating the `createStream()` function with the following ```auto memset(&exinfo, 0, sizeof(FMOD_CREATESOUNDEXINFO)); exinfo.cbsize = sizeof(FMOD_CREATESOUNDEXINFO); exinfo.filebuffersize = 1024 * 16; /* Increase the default file chunk size to handle seeking inside large playlist files that may be over 2kb. */ // Test play radio station result = system->createStream("http://yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/tunein-station.pls?id=99497996", FMOD_CREATESTREAM | FMOD_NONBLOCKING, &exinfo, &musicSound); if (result != FMOD_OK) { showError("playMusicW HTTP", result); return; } ``` Two issues I identified was missing the `exinfo` ([FMOD Engine | Core API Reference - FMOD\_CREATESOUNDEXINFO](https://fmod.com/docs/2.02/api/core-api-system.html#fmod_createsoundexinfo)) which contains information about the sound to be played and updating the flags used when creating the sound ([FMOD Engine | Core API Reference - FMOD\_MODE](https://fmod.com/docs/2.02/api/core-api-common.html#fmod_mode)). Let me know if that works. ---
**Author:** ![stargx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@stargx](https://qa.fmod.com/u/stargx)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/11 "2025-01-06T10:48:21Z")
In the playSound call I now get the error FMOD\_ERR\_NOTREADY. If I remove the FMOD\_NONBLOCKING options, I still get the FMOD\_ERR\_FORMAT error. So that code didn’t seem to change anything on my end. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Connor\_FMOD](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/connor_fmod/32/3685_2.png) [@Connor\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Connor_FMOD)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 1:16am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/playing-mpeg-radio-station-on-ps4/22368/12 "2025-01-09T01:16:50Z")
Thank you for testing that for me. I think we have found a bug with UE. I will create a task to investigate the issue further. An option may be using an `FMODAudio` component rather than playing it our self. 1. First we need to create the Programmer instrument ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/f/f5b4352d601d07f43da6bb65c9285669bc95d06f.png) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/8/8ca3b05ec24219fbf74c6ed4b68f349612bab5f1.png) 2. Trigger it using an `FMODAudio` component ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/c/c6b08b733f5a1bb8d0facd5ab1c029e803621560.png) 3. Set the `Programmer Sound Name` as the URL ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/fmod/original/2X/b/b76e31877a65bb5b605a8f5e48043ff948a54d7a.png) Hope this helps!