Thanks for going to all this trouble! On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 08 March 2008 06:10, I wrote:
> > Rhythmbox (based on gstreamer) could not handle wrfg.org/listen.asp > > (told me it could not determine the nature of the stream). The totem > > (now -xine) movie player handles it very nicely, although I really > > don't need the rather cool visualization! > > > > I LIKE Rhythmbox - is there something I'm missing (although I think > > I've installed all the gstreamer plugins there are) to have it play my > > favorite radio station (WRFG)? > Hi Patrick. I've played about a bit with Rhythmbox/gstreamer today to try to > resolve your problem with accessing streams from http://www.wrfg.org. > > Anyway this is how it went. I use KDE on Lenny, and other distros. Rhythmbox > was not installed, so I installed it, and it pulled in a load of deps. I've > attached the history file for what was installed below. > > Started Rhythmbox, and added new radio station with > http://wrfg.org/listen.asp. No joy with that though, as we know. > > Now I have the debian-multimedia repo in my /etc/apt/sources.list, and > synaptic showed 2 versions of the ffmpeg package available. The installed one > was from the Debian repo, and the other named "gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-full" was > from Christian Marillats debian-multimedia repo. I removed the installed one, > installed the one from Debian-multimedia, then tried > http://wrfg.org/listen.asp again. Still no joy. I tried that too. > Not being one to give up, I opened Firefox. Now when I installed Rhythmbox it > had also installed a load of Totem plugins, and I know these like to take > first place when you want to play any streams in Firefox. Typing > about:plugins in Firefox confirmed that along with the Mplayerplug-in stuff, > there were now a load of Totem plugins. So I type in the URL > http://www.wrfg.org, click on "listen live", and a window opens, saying the > following. > <quote> > you have chosen to open > listen.pls > which is a: MP3 ShoutCast playlist > from: http://streaming.wrfg.org > And with the default application to play this being "Movie Player" > <end quote> > > Ok, I go for the default, and amazingly Totem gstreamer for the first time > that I can remember actually plays something, and says it's getting it from: > streaming.wrfg.org:80. Totem-xine works for me, but I was unable to get totem-gstreamer to play it. > Clearly the codecs are there for gstreamer to play streams from the site, as > totem/gstreamer is working. > > Now to try Rhythmbox again. Very doubtfull, I click on "New Internet Radio > Station", and add http://streaming.wrfg.org. Double click on the new entry, > and Bingo! The stream plays. It's a bit stuttery as I'm on dialup, but the > other night on Firefox there were no stutters, but at least the site is > working with Rhythmbox/gstreamer, for me at least. I'll take a look at your list of deps and see what I'm missing. I did get a conflict between gstreamer-ugly and gstreamer bad, so maybe there's something in one of those which I need and don't have. Thanks again for this above-and-beyond effort. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]