On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 11:05:58 -0700 Colin Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyways... My question relates to internet radio feeds. Some of the stations I > like to listen to over the internet actually offer feeds in formats that > aren't > a problem for linux (mp3, ogg) but most stations give you a choice between If you set things up (for instance use mplayer plugin) then mplayer (or xine, kaffeine, amarok etc.) can play the content without too much trouble, although, I'll admit this has been a sticky point in the past. Radio stations sometimes make it difficult to find the actual media resource locator for their feeds, and as such you have to slog through a few pages to get to the actual url you need to put on the command line. Sometimes, getting the .pls or what have you file will give you an embedded media resource locator file that you can simply hand off to one of those players and have it play the content for you. I've employed this technique (for instance : $ mplayer `cat radio-feed` ) where the "radio-feed" file is a file that looks like: rtsp://128.255.60.46:554/encoder/ksuilive.rm?cloakport=8080,554,7070 --stop-- pnm://128.255.60.46:7070/encoder/ksuilive.rm?cloakport=8080,554,7070 (one radio station profile chosen at random, though this one seems to be setup for realmedia aka realplayer). Once you know the real address for the station feed, it's not too much of a chore to get one of the free (i.e., oss) players to play the contents, although you may need codecs and other libraries to do it. Over here, I have a number of kde icons (shortcuts) with names of radio stations - one click and up pops a konsole or xterm with mplayer (or ogg123) playing the feed content. That works fairly well, but it would be nicer if the radio station content were more integrated into the players, which is one thing about Windows Media Player I actually like. But the real trick is to get the browser to open one of a number of alternatives (mplayer, xine, etc.) when encountering a click here sign saying "listen live" or equivalent. Again, mplayer plugin works quite well. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
