Re: How do I listen to radio?
On Friday 01 June 2007 12:15, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Ed says.
>
> > OK. Installed from RealPlayer10GOLD.bin. Symlinks are in place. Shows
> > up in about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure
> > at CSPAN, btw. On sites other than those two, RealPlayer works fine.
> > Well, not the Amazon realplayer samples - says their codecs are too old.
> > I use xine for windoze media files - works fine. Oh well, as the old
> > Indian in "Little Big Man" said - "Sometimes the magic works and
> > sometimes it doesn't".
>
> This is really weird. The fact that some sites work with realplayer makes
> it even weirder. I tried the C-SPAN site, click on use realplayer, and
> Iceweasel asks what I want to open it with, and realplayer 10 is there
> waiting for me to click on it, then it dl's the ram file, and the
> standalone version of realplayer opens, then the audio starts to flow.
Some Real files play, depending evidently on the extension. Just tried the
RealPlayer stuff at
http://www.cpcweb.com/Webcasting/webcast_samples.htm
If I click on any language other than English, ".rm" files are called, and
they play w/o a hitch. The English files, though, are ".smi", and RealPlayer
tells me that the file, <something>.rm, cannot be found. Of course not -
it's a .smi file.
At RealPlayer's site, http://service.real.com/realplayer/test/, none of
the ".ram" files play.
In short, .rm files play; none of the other extensions do. btw, the listing
in about:plugins shows only
the ".rpm" extension. Is it supposed to show more?
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