Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?
Hi Carl,
I did a lot of poking around after the Car Talk switch and as far as I can
tell, wma9 encoded audio can not be played unless you can run Microsoft(TM)
brand software. I've sent a couple of emails to the Car Talk guys
explaining this and pointing out that their tips page is wrong without any
response.
FWIW, Googling led me to a ripe.net discussion on the same issue. They
solved it by switching to the wma8 audio encoder. (Also emailed to Car
Talk.)
Also FWIW, I had to add a '-bandwidth 99999' argument to the mplayer command line
or it would stall at the buffering stage. Regardless, eventually you will
get an error: 'Cannot find codec for audio format 0xA.' which is the
ultimate show stopper.
I would be happy to be proven wrong.
-- Brad
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?
> --
> Carl Fink carl@fink.to
> Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
> http://www.jabootu.com
>
>
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University of Virginia Physics Department
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