I know this isn't rocket science, but so far all I've done is run into walls. I'm sure there is some way this will work this side of killing a chicken at the dark of the moon and uttering the secret chant. ;)
I occasionally listen to a ASX streams and for a long time I've used the Mozilla plugin for Mplayer which does the job but leaves much to be desired in the style department. So I set about trying to use the various players run from Iceweasel and came up with none that would just decode the ASX file and play the stream. I tried Audacious 2.0, Amarok 1.4.11, VLC 0.9.9a, and Gmplayer 1.0.rc2svn and the related Kmplayer, and Kaffeine all unable to play an ASX stream file. I had success with various ones for decoding PLS and M3U so the framework is there. Note that I was going through IW's GUI to select a program and not trying to do any special configuration in "about:config". Now I know all about calling mplayer with the -playlist option and manually extracting the URI from the saved ASX file and playing it that way but that kind of defeats the purpose of the modern desktop and nice media players, no? I also had varying levels of success manually opening a given stream using the manually copied and pasted URI which is a kludge. So is everyone else happily kludging along or do I need to do that special ceremony to get this high technology to work? All ideas appreciated. - Nate >> P.S. Was I a bit too sarcastic? -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
