Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, George MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/13 Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jason Liquorish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies, I seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply. The correct address for Radio 2 is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1 Thank you so much, Jason. I now have Radio 2 in Rhythmbox and am listening to it right now :) Has anyone else noticed the reduction in quality of the sound from the BBC? I have been listening to 6Music for ages now using the RealPlayer plug-in in Firefox and the sound was great. Since the IPlayer revamp the quality of the sound is abysmal, it's very tinny and weak and is the same for all the stations. Sorry about the late response, but I must agree, the sound quality is very sub-standard. When using RealPlayer it was much better, and you could pause/rewind live radio (at least with the latest realplayer10 in Linux) I think the answer may be somewhere here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/under_the_iplayer_hood_for_rad.shtml this makes me mad! quote We're doing this because we know online radio is particularly useful in the office, and chances are that Windows Media is automatically installed on most computers/quote - thanks for thinking about the rest of us! rant over At the moment, I'm listening through Rhythmbox and I get a strange thing when I connect, it buffers and plays for about 2 seconds, then re-buffers and plays continually. the first time it plays the sounds quality sounds better than the second time... --Michael _ Michael Fletcher Visit my website here - http://www.mgfletcher.com/blog Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support
From the same page, they also say: we still give Real to some operating systems and if you need RealPlayer for your internet radio or your fridge http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/under_the_iplayer_hood_for_rad.shtml/ext/_auto/-/http://www.firebox.com/product/411/Internet-Fridge, those streams continue; we've no plans to remove them. So the RealPlayer streams should be available somewhere, any ideas? (They also say they are going to move to higher bitrates in the future.) Robert Dorrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael G Fletcher wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, George MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/13 Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jason Liquorish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies, I seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply. The correct address for Radio 2 is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1 Thank you so much, Jason. I now have Radio 2 in Rhythmbox and am listening to it right now :) Has anyone else noticed the reduction in quality of the sound from the BBC? I have been listening to 6Music for ages now using the RealPlayer plug-in in Firefox and the sound was great. Since the IPlayer revamp the quality of the sound is abysmal, it's very tinny and weak and is the same for all the stations. Sorry about the late response, but I must agree, the sound quality is very sub-standard. When using RealPlayer it was much better, and you could pause/rewind live radio (at least with the latest realplayer10 in Linux) I think the answer may be somewhere here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/under_the_iplayer_hood_for_rad.shtml this makes me mad! quote We're doing this because we know online radio is particularly useful in the office, and chances are that Windows Media is automatically installed on most computers/quote - thanks for thinking about the rest of us! rant over At the moment, I'm listening through Rhythmbox and I get a strange thing when I connect, it buffers and plays for about 2 seconds, then re-buffers and plays continually. the first time it plays the sounds quality sounds better than the second time... --Michael _ Michael Fletcher Visit my website here - http://www.mgfletcher.com/blog Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jason Liquorish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies, I seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply. The correct address for Radio 2 is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1 Thank you so much, Jason. I now have Radio 2 in Rhythmbox and am listening to it right now :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support
2008/7/13 Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jason Liquorish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies, I seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply. The correct address for Radio 2 is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1 Thank you so much, Jason. I now have Radio 2 in Rhythmbox and am listening to it right now :) Has anyone else noticed the reduction in quality of the sound from the BBC? I have been listening to 6Music for ages now using the RealPlayer plug-in in Firefox and the sound was great. Since the IPlayer revamp the quality of the sound is abysmal, it's very tinny and weak and is the same for all the stations. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Rob Stent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days the BBC iPlayer website has been revamped, including the availability of most radio programmes in flash format, the same as the TV shows. I'm sure I'm not alone in having had various problems in getting the BBC's Real Audio and Windows Media radio programmes to play in Ubuntu, so I thought it might be useful to draw attention to this development. Currently listening to Colin Murray in said format I noticed this but it's only really ideal if we can launch a station (e.g. Radio 2) from a launcher and play it in a media player on our desktop. Everything else I listen to in Rythmbox (as controlled by a Cairo Dock applet). If listening to the BBC Radio Stations could be integrated to this then I would tune into Radio 2. As it stands I don't think it can easily be done which means BBC Radio 2 don't have me as a listener. I think similar applies to a lot of FOSS users. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support
Jai Harrison wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Rob Stent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days the BBC iPlayer website has been revamped, including the availability of most radio programmes in flash format, the same as the TV shows. I'm sure I'm not alone in having had various problems in getting the BBC's Real Audio and Windows Media radio programmes to play in Ubuntu, so I thought it might be useful to draw attention to this development. Currently listening to Colin Murray in said format I noticed this but it's only really ideal if we can launch a station (e.g. Radio 2) from a launcher and play it in a media player on our desktop. Everything else I listen to in Rythmbox (as controlled by a Cairo Dock applet). If listening to the BBC Radio Stations could be integrated to this then I would tune into Radio 2. As it stands I don't think it can easily be done which means BBC Radio 2 don't have me as a listener. I think similar applies to a lot of FOSS users. I have added Radio 1 and 2 to Rhythmbox quite easily. The address for the Radio 2 feed is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/ just add that as a radio station and it should play fine. -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support
Jai Harrison wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Rob Stent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last couple of days the BBC iPlayer website has been revamped, including the availability of most radio programmes in flash format, the same as the TV shows. I'm sure I'm not alone in having had various problems in getting the BBC's Real Audio and Windows Media radio programmes to play in Ubuntu, so I thought it might be useful to draw attention to this development. Currently listening to Colin Murray in said format I noticed this but it's only really ideal if we can launch a station (e.g. Radio 2) from a launcher and play it in a media player on our desktop. Everything else I listen to in Rythmbox (as controlled by a Cairo Dock applet). If listening to the BBC Radio Stations could be integrated to this then I would tune into Radio 2. As it stands I don't think it can easily be done which means BBC Radio 2 don't have me as a listener. I think similar applies to a lot of FOSS users. Apologies, I seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply. The correct address for Radio 2 is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1 -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support
In the last couple of days the BBC iPlayer website has been revamped, including the availability of most radio programmes in flash format, the same as the TV shows. I'm sure I'm not alone in having had various problems in getting the BBC's Real Audio and Windows Media radio programmes to play in Ubuntu, so I thought it might be useful to draw attention to this development. Currently listening to Colin Murray in said format -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
