Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread mac
mac wrote: > BBC: (I haven't tried all of these, but the ones I have tried do work; > you need gstreamer-plugins-ugly): Forgot to say that these URLs seem to work with Rhythmbox (though I normally play radio streams through Slimdevices/Logitech SqueezeCentre + Squeezeboxes). mac -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread mac
Robert Longstaff wrote: >> They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as >> far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux media players >> (including mplayer!) that can play Windows Media DRM'd files and b) no >> way of stripping the DRM without using Windows. > > I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread Robert Longstaff
> They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as > far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux media players > (including mplayer!) that can play Windows Media DRM'd files and b) no > way of stripping the DRM without using Windows. I don't know if the Radio 4 stream

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread Vinothan Shankar
2009/11/7 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk > On the other hand, do the > BBC offer Windows Media streams, as if they do you might be able to feed > them into mplayer. > > Rob > They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-08 Thread Matt Jones
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:20 AM, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > Hi, > > Matt Jones  wrote :- > >> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Restall - System Administrator >> wrote: >> > >> > Also can somebody tell me why the BBC are so keen on 'Podcasts' which is >> > as proprietary as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-08 Thread David Restall - System Administrator
Hi, Philip Stubbs wrote :- > 2009/11/7 David Restall - System Administrator : > > I'm not that interested in TV streams (there's not much on TV that > > interests me so I rarely watch it). =A0Where is the get_iplayer script ? > > http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer Many thanks for that - it does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-08 Thread David Restall - System Administrator
Hi, Matt Jones wrote :- > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Restall - System Administrator > wrote: > > > > Also can somebody tell me why the BBC are so keen on 'Podcasts' which is > > as proprietary as they come but not so keen on just putting good old > > MP3's on the site to download ? >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-07 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/11/7 David Restall - System Administrator : > I'm not that interested in TV streams (there's not much on TV that > interests me so I rarely watch it).  Where is the get_iplayer script ? http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-07 Thread Matt Jones
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > > Also can somebody tell me why the BBC are so keen on 'Podcasts' which is > as proprietary as they come but not so keen on just putting good old > MP3's on the site to download ? > They do put MP3's for direct download

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-07 Thread David Restall - System Administrator
Hi Rob, Snip... > > > I gather they are phasing out Real streams. Grrr !! > > It seems as if it's alright for 'doze users, they can download the > > streams in the player provided but for Linux users all we are given is a > > crippled player. > > > > > What player are you using, the one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-07 Thread Rob Beard
On 07/11/2009 19:11, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > Hi, > > up until a few weeks ago, I was quite happily able to download the real > streams from the BBC, convert them to MP3 and play them in the car. > > What happened a few weeks ago ? Well dear old auntie stopped including a > li

[ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-07 Thread David Restall - System Administrator
Hi, up until a few weeks ago, I was quite happily able to download the real streams from the BBC, convert them to MP3 and play them in the car. What happened a few weeks ago ? Well dear old auntie stopped including a link to the real stream in the iplayer meta data. Does anybody know if they ar