On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 07:17, bascule wrote:
> hi james,
> i think i wasn't clear, i want to be able to play streaming mp3s not serve 
> them, i had to play around with plugger4.0 to get links in konqueror to play 
> in anything but xmms but even though i now get gmplayer to play them the page 
> in konqueror also tries to load the m3u link and i get a blank page that 
> requires a 'back' operation to return to the page with the link, when one 
> clicks on a download link the page doesn't change, one just gets a download 
> dialogue, playing streams should be like that,

In kdemultimedia there is a product called kaboodle... it might do what
you want.  Seems to be a bit light on features but... it plays the mp3. 
You need to use aumix to set volumes for it.  And it doesn't create the
"white page" affect.

> also i failed completely to get notun or any other player to play the streams 
> from the link, it's possible that this was because the site with the links is 
> password protected, in gmplayer you can see the user:pass in the url, but if 
> this is not the case then i'd like to have noatun play these streaming links
> i've had no success using konquerors file associations and only using 
> plugger4.0 seems to get anything done, i was surprised to see that 
> mplayerplugin lists mp3 as a recognised file type but not m3u, since of 
> course gmplayer will actually play m3u urls, i had hoped that mayber kmplayer 
> woud do as well embedded in konq like its does quicktime etc. but apparently 
> not :(
> i've tried adding mpegurl, x-mpeg-url to konqueror's file association list 
> with plugger unsinstalled but this didn't work either
> 
> bascule
> 
> On Friday 18 Jul 2003 3:48 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 18:09, bascule wrote:
> > > having had a run in recently with plugger4.0 and trying to get streaming
> > > mp3s to work i 'd like to know what other konqueror users have set up,
> > > i'm interested in any setups that don't play using xmms and where
> > > clicking on the link will result in the stream being played but the page
> > > with the link still being displayed
> > >
> > > bascule
> >
> > Bascule,
> >
> >    Although I don't have it running now, IceCast (better yet it's
> > successor I don't remember the name of.) worked like a dream.  For a
> > while in an old office we had 3 simultaneous streams running (Jazz
> > Classic Rock and Classical) from an older pII 300.  Users could use any
> > mp3 player they wanted that could connect to a URL and it just worked.
> > (Even Winders disabled boxes) shoutcast.com is a great place to start
> > for info on this product.
> >
> > James


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