Some stations provides Flash based user interface but stream standard URLs.
Some use Flash as user interface but also Flash based audio (e.g. BBC) usually either Flash/AAC or Flash/MP3 where there is a proprietary transport protocol RTMP moving standard audio format. Some of these can be played with a special plugin but there two versions of RTMP - plain and encrypted so possibility of playing a Flash stream even with a special plugin is not definite. To support users with low bandwidth some stations provide high quality over Flash (e.g. 128kbit) and a typically low quality (e.g. 32kbit) "standard" URL - this is true for StreamtheWorld and LiquidCompass stations. Your ESPN station is a Streamtheworld and the URL provided by RadioTime is in fact http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/asx/WEPNAM.asx I'm not sure if Radiotime does any converions. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73818 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
