On Saturday 08 March 2008 06:10, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Provocative question, I realize. > > But here's why I ask: > > totem-gstreamer could not handle DVD's with menus, no matter what > plugins I added, it just played the first track. So, I switched to > totem-xine, and it handled them perfectly. > > Rhythmbox (based on gstreamer) could not handle wrfg.org/listen.asp > (told me it could not determine the nature of the stream). The totem > (now -xine) movie player handles it very nicely, although I really > don't need the rather cool visualization! > > I LIKE Rhythmbox - is there something I'm missing (although I think > I've installed all the gstreamer plugins there are) to have it play my > favorite radio station (WRFG)? > > Patrick
Hi Patrick. I've played about a bit with Rhythmbox/gstreamer today to try to resolve your problem with accessing streams from http://www.wrfg.org. Anyway this is how it went. I use KDE on Lenny, and other distros. Rhythmbox was not installed, so I installed it, and it pulled in a load of deps. I've attached the history file for what was installed below. Started Rhythmbox, and added new radio station with http://wrfg.org/listen.asp. No joy with that though, as we know. Now I have the debian-multimedia repo in my /etc/apt/sources.list, and synaptic showed 2 versions of the ffmpeg package available. The installed one was from the Debian repo, and the other named "gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-full" was from Christian Marillats debian-multimedia repo. I removed the installed one, installed the one from Debian-multimedia, then tried http://wrfg.org/listen.asp again. Still no joy. Not being one to give up, I opened Firefox. Now when I installed Rhythmbox it had also installed a load of Totem plugins, and I know these like to take first place when you want to play any streams in Firefox. Typing about:plugins in Firefox confirmed that along with the Mplayerplug-in stuff, there were now a load of Totem plugins. So I type in the URL http://www.wrfg.org, click on "listen live", and a window opens, saying the following. <quote> you have chosen to open listen.pls which is a: MP3 ShoutCast playlist from: http://streaming.wrfg.org And with the default application to play this being "Movie Player" <end quote> Ok, I go for the default, and amazingly Totem gstreamer for the first time that I can remember actually plays something, and says it's getting it from: streaming.wrfg.org:80. Clearly the codecs are there for gstreamer to play streams from the site, as totem/gstreamer is working. Now to try Rhythmbox again. Very doubtfull, I click on "New Internet Radio Station", and add http://streaming.wrfg.org. Double click on the new entry, and Bingo! The stream plays. It's a bit stuttery as I'm on dialup, but the other night on Firefox there were no stutters, but at least the site is working with Rhythmbox/gstreamer, for me at least. Feedback requested, if you get it to stream ok. Nigel. File attached below for the stuff that apt-get install rhythmbox installed as deps.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: debian:/home/djmons# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: libtunepimp5 zynaddsubfx 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. debian:/home/djmons# apt-get install rhythmbox Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libmtp6 libsigc++-2.0-dev libsnmp10 libgpod2 libx264-56 libcairomm-1.0-dev libxine1-gnome uuid-dev libpoppler-glib1 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 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