Hi Carl, I did a lot of poking around after the Car Talk switch and as far as I can tell, wma9 encoded audio can not be played unless you can run Microsoft(TM) brand software. I've sent a couple of emails to the Car Talk guys explaining this and pointing out that their tips page is wrong without any response.
FWIW, Googling led me to a ripe.net discussion on the same issue. They solved it by switching to the wma8 audio encoder. (Also emailed to Car Talk.) Also FWIW, I had to add a '-bandwidth 99999' argument to the mplayer command line or it would stall at the buffering stage. Regardless, eventually you will get an error: 'Cannot find codec for audio format 0xA.' which is the ultimate show stopper. I would be happy to be proven wrong. -- Brad On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Carl Fink wrote: > I've been a fan of the NPR show "Car Talk" for years now. I can't easily > hear it on the actual radio any more, so I have been playing the Internet > stream. > > However, they recently switched from Real to wma9 streaming formats, and > nothing I can find will play their stream under Linux. Their site claims > mplayer will -- but the Marillat version at least, does not. Neither will > avifile-player (even with the Windows codecs) or xine. > > All of them show the same behavior. They say "Buffering", then act as if > they're playing a stream (that is, the timer advances) but in total silence. > > The streams are visible at > <http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Show/Audio/200408/wms/CT0408-SHOW.asx>. > > Any suggestions? > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading > http://www.jabootu.com > > -- Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of Virginia Physics Department Ph: (434) 924-6580 Fax: (434) 924-7909 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
