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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
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