On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:50 +0000, Kris Marsh wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 10:45 AM, Greg K Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sean Miller: > > > I'm sure it's all working for me in mplayer... unless it's something > > > else you're referring to... the BBC Website Realaudio streams? > > > > > > Sean > > > > > > > The stream I'm trying is > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/rm/video/news24_bb.ram > > which redirects to an RTSP stream. > > > > That address can be found by following the "Watch Live BBC News 24" link > > towards the top of http://news.bbc.co.uk/ then in the resulting pop-up > > following the "Launch in stand alone player" link. > > > > (Incidentally, that should say "stand-alone"; silly BBC.) > > > > MPlayer doesn't like me either: > > "Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bbc.co.uk" > > > > (Which is fair enough because I don't like *it* — every time you use a > > multiple-window interface, one of the HIG gnomes dies. (Wilbur is wanted > > by Interpol.)) > > > > So: I can't find RealPlayer in Add/Remove or Synaptic; and Totem, Helix > > Player, VLC and MPlayer all can't play the stream. > > > > I don't think it's an internet connectivity issue, because Amarok and > > Totem can both play SomaFM's mp3 streams happily. E.g.: > > http://somafm.com/startstream=indiepop.pls > > http://somafm.com/startstream=groovesalad.pls > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > Hi Greg, > > Try: > > mplayer -playlist > http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/rm/video/news24_bb.ram > > Alternatively, grab the contents of the ram file: > > wget http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/rm/video/news24_bb.ram > -qO - > rtsp://rmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive-acl/farm/live24/news/news24_bb.rm?BBC-UID=b43783e8129f3b062346e396c0d073415837f35c90302174a4cff63f8234acdb_n&SSO2-UID= > > And bung that directly into mplayer, either *should* work. > > Kris >
Also consider installing the mozilla-mplayer plugin (from multiverse), it should then play the stream within the browser. It's not very pretty, but it works. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
