Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 09:54, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 17 Apr 2007, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:38:10 +0100
> > Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Yes it does play the shows available on 'Listen Again'. I've just been
> > listening to 'Pathaan's Musical
> > Rickshaw' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/pathaansmusicalrickshaw/)
> > via listen again on my laptop running AMD64 Debian. MPlayer has never
> > had any issues with anything I've thrown at it. You'll need the binary
> > codecs pack from the MPlayer site to play some proprietary formats
> > though for example, Realvideo.
> >
> > Ananda
>
> Interesting - I'll look into it.
>
> Anthony
According to posts on the LAU list this morning, the BBC are now using WMA
rather than Realmedia for their streams.
Saying that though, I'm listening to the BBC at the moment on FC2 using Opera,
and Realplayer. Firefox is setup with Mplayerplug-in, but you have to do
extra work to get Opera to use Mplayerplugin, and I havn't bothered.
Recently though with the latest Opera version on Etch, I've recently been
getting some strange output when listening to the BBC. Echoes, and breaks in
the transmission. I'm on dialup, and the breaks are the sort of thing I get
when I go to a site that streams at a high bandwidth, which I can't handle.
Nigel.
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