On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:10:10 -0500
Rick Kunath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:06 pm, Jerry Barton wrote:
> > I'm trying to listen to an audio stream on
> > http://www.crienglish.com/radio/index.htm
> >
> > The link to the stream is:
> > mms://218.244.243.30/roundtheclock
> > and the player it wants is Windows Media Player 9 (the "download
> > player" on the front page is the WM9 installer). Is there a way to
> > get this to work with xmms/mplayer/etc? When I click on the
> > link(looks like an'eject' button) I just get an error saying mms:
> > unregistered protocol. I tried using the CLI with mplayer<link> but
> > it didn't work. Any ideas? TIA.
> >
> > Jerry
> 
> The mplayer gui will play it. Open mplayer and enter the url into the
> "open, play URL" dialog box.
> 
> Make sure that you have the latest version of mplayer (1.0 pre3) and
> the win32 and real codecs. You can get the codecs and mplayer here - 
> 
> ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandrake/9.2/i586/
> 
> Also, the mplayer plugin for mozilla (1.0 pre2) will start mplayer
> from the web page.
> 
> Rick
> 

This must be one of those incompatible sites then.  it still didn't work
with the plugin (still get mms:// unregistered protocol message) but I
could get a couple of seconds of audio using the GUI and open URL.  Then
I'd get a"Connection refused" or some such message.  Oh well.

Thanks for your help, Rick.  I'm sure it will come in handy on other
sites! :-)

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