Wonder if this is connected somehow to why I can't get a live
stream from Live365.com? It apparently uses 'm3u' and 'pls'
extensions on the live stuff. 'pls' was already in my xmms setup
and I added in netscape the extensions to realplayer and it tries
to open it but won't play anything but the realplayer 'theme'
...just can't get it to connect to the live365 stream.
I have a direct link address for a weekly radio program that
is live streaming on mp3 format (different site entirely)
and go direct through xmms with no problem. And can
get live radio broadcasts fine (that are not in the new
media player format)...i.e. from Yahoo Broadcast.
I am at a loss for how to do this as well.
Bambi
"Werner E. Niebel" wrote:
> James,
>
> I agree with much of your accessment. OK here is the weird thing... When I
> upgraded to Mandrake 7.1 this only started happenning... Yesterday I tried to
> connect to Dr Dean Edel and then could not .. I quick rebooted and tried in
> Mandrake 7.0 (since I installed them on separte partitions) and I could reboot
> in 7.0... It seems to either be a Mandrake 7.1 problem or Netscape or
> something I had in configuration that got overwritten. Im trying to
> troubleshoot this but it only has a problem with real time streams... I can
> connect to businesstalkradio fine yet other sites I cant. Incidentally if I
> try to get Dr Dean archives it works fine.. Its only with some real time
> streams...
>
> Any additional advice you or anyone has would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Werner
>
> James Sparenberg wrote:
>
> > Werner,
> > There could be a couple of reasons that you can't connect and they
> > aren't your fault. Since you can connect to the one site that indicates
> > that your set up correctly (however this could be a bad assumption on my
> > part I really doubt if it is.)
> > 1. Rush's site is so slow or overloaded at the time you are trying to
> > connect that it's just taking forever for RPlayer to get the data it needs
> > and it's timing out or freezing.
> > 2. The webmaster at rushes site made a typo on the page and as a result
> > it can't connect correctly.
> > 3. Since realplayer for linux is in a state of perpetual beta testing it
> > could be unable to connect due to some weird Windoze only feature the
> > webmaster has enacted.
> > 4. The people at Real.com are liberals and they have added software to
> > block Rush. :)
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > James
> >
> > At 10:46 AM 6/22/00, you wrote:
> > >Hi there,
> > >
> > >I had real player working and dont know what is going on in 7.1. If I
> > >go to a site like
> > >
> > >www.businesstalkradio.net and try to listen it works fine with the
> > >streaming audio...When I go to something like
> > >
> > >www.rushlimbaugh.com
> > >
> > >it doesnt work... Real player executes and says "contacting" forever yet
> > >never gets the stream...Anyone out there know what the netscape file
> > >structure and plugins well enough to help me out diagnose what is
> > >wrong...
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >
> > >Werner
