Re: listening radio from the internet
But mplayer is not a debian package, right?
What about xine, gstreamer or vlc.
xine and vlc have mozilla plug-ins apparently...
Did you try them. Can you tell me your opinions?
thanks
Alberto
On Jan 20, 2005 at 04:26:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 04:34 -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:49:55AM +0100, Alberto Bert wrote:
> > > how to play radio suggesting windows media player? They have another
> > > format apparently, which realplayer cannot read.
> >
> > mplayer
> >
> > download the asx file or peek at the source of the web page
> > look for a mms:// string -- there may be more than one,
> > if the file has a "startup clip" -- usually an add
> >
> > then do mplayer 'mms://path/to/whatever?whatever&whatever'
>
> There's also aviplay (package avifile-player), which, I think,
> is lighter-weight than mplayer.
> This plays my local classical music/leftist propaganda radio
> station:
> aviplay mms://pubint.wm.llnwd.net/pubint_wwno &
>
> Note that mozilla-mplayer also wants to play RealPlayer streams,
> so having it (a plugin) and the RP10 plugin both at the same time
> is a bit squirrely.
>
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