Re: Sirius radio streaming?

[charlie derr <cderr@simons-rock.edu>]

charlie derr wrote:
> At the very end of the process (after signing in with my 
> username/password to the applet in either iceweasel or epiphany), I get 
> the following error from totem:
>
> Totem could not play 
> 'mmsh://a1518.I2280061804.c22800.g.lm.akamaistream.net/<incredibly_long_url_truncated>.asx'. 
>
>
>
> Any clues on how I would get totem to play this apparent .asx file?  Is 
> there a different application that would work better?  I assume there's 
> lots of ugliness involving non-free codecs or some such, but I just 
> wondered if anyone else had this working and could give some hints.
>
> I'm running sid.
>
>     thanks so much in advance,
>             ~c


Answering my own question (obviously should have googled *first*), I've now installed mplayer and run the script to get the 
non-free components, so I think I'm close.  The final hurdle seems to be getting totem to let go of the association to .asx files. 
 Installing mozilla-mplayer interestingly didn't pry totem away in iceweasel.  I'm thinking now that the file associations are 
maintained in the KDE control center.  Does that sound right? (obviously I use KDE on my desktop)

	~c