Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:12:38PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: The thing is, getting it from cartalk.com lets me listen when I have the time, rather than when it's broadcast. Talk someone into archiving it for you. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:16:47AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:12:38PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: The thing is, getting it from cartalk.com lets me listen when I have the time, rather than when it's broadcast. Talk someone into archiving it for you. Okay, that's two

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-25 Thread Ric Otte
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:42:14PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: However, they recently switched from Real to wma9 streaming formats, and nothing I can find will play their stream under Linux. Their site claims mplayer will -- but the Marillat version at least, does not. Neither will

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-25 Thread Brad Sawatzky
Hi Carl, I did a lot of poking around after the Car Talk switch and as far as I can tell, wma9 encoded audio can not be played unless you can run Microsoft(TM) brand software. I've sent a couple of emails to the Car Talk guys explaining this and pointing out that their tips page is wrong without

RE: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-25 Thread Douglas G. Phillips
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system? Hi Carl, I did a lot of poking around after the Car Talk switch and as far as I can tell, wma9 encoded audio can not be played unless you can run Microsoft(TM

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:08:04AM -0600, Douglas G. Phillips wrote: I use XMMS to play a shoutcast stream of NPR radio, both for the classical music and car talk. That works out really well, and you may find it works out for you. Only if Car Talk used shoutcast, which they do not. --

RE: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-25 Thread Matthew Joyce
let them know that something wasn't quite right about relying on Linux and yet changing formats so that folks using Linux couldn't listen to their material. Ric ..but them using Linux as a server has nothing to do with supporting linux clients does it ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-24 Thread Carl Fink
I've been a fan of the NPR show Car Talk for years now. I can't easily hear it on the actual radio any more, so I have been playing the Internet stream. However, they recently switched from Real to wma9 streaming formats, and nothing I can find will play their stream under Linux. Their site

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
How about grabbing the stream from an NPR station that carries the show? WUNC does, I know: www.wunc.org. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-24 Thread Nano Nano
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:42:14PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: The streams are visible at http://cartalk.cars.com/Radio/Show/Audio/200408/wms/CT0408-SHOW.asx. Any suggestions? -- Same behavior here. It's either updated codecs that mplayer doesn't support or maybe the server expects a

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

2004-02-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:47:00PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: How about grabbing the stream from an NPR station that carries the show? WUNC does, I know: www.wunc.org. Please don't top-post. Also please don't CC me when posting to the list. The thing is, getting it from cartalk.com lets me