Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.
On 17 Apr 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.
>
In fact, I'm able to listen with the BBC Radio Player at the moment. In
the past this hasn't worked and I had to resort to RealPlayer. Perhaps
they are more linux-accessible now than they used to be?
Anthony
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