Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?
How about grabbing the stream from an NPR station that carries the show?
WUNC does, I know: www.wunc.org.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Carl Fink wrote:
> I've been a fan of the NPR show "Car Talk" for years now. I can't easily
> hear it on the actual radio any more, so I have been playing the Internet
> stream.
>
> However, they recently switched from Real to wma9 streaming formats, and
> nothing I can find will play their stream under Linux. Their site claims
> mplayer will -- but the Marillat version at least, does not. Neither will
> avifile-player (even with the Windows codecs) or xine.
>
> All of them show the same behavior. They say "Buffering", then act as if
> they're playing a stream (that is, the timer advances) but in total silence.
>
> The streams are visible at
> <http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Show/Audio/200408/wms/CT0408-SHOW.asx>.
>
> Any suggestions?
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