> Here's one little thing that bugs me: 2SER (community radio station in > Sydney) broadcast on line, but sadly they require Windows Media Player > 7. My question: is there any way of playing such stream in Linux? > > I'm aware of Crossover plugins, but their support for Media Player stops > at its version 6.-whatever. > > I also looked at mplayer pages, which list a great number of supported > formats but in the end I wasn't sure whether it would do what I want or > not. In any case, I tried to get mplayer running a while back and I > failed miserably... > > As I live just up the road the easiest solution for me would be to > simply buy a cheap radio but there are lots of Media Player streams out > there, and it would be handy to be able to access them... as for 2SER, I > even sent them email politely pointing out the advantages of using open > formats when presenting content on the Net, especially for a community > station, but apparently I failed to change their minds :) > >
This is definitely outside my expertise, but would there be anyone on this list who could offer to *HELP* the station use open formats? As a community radio station, the people at 2SER are likely to be non technical, and might simply feel too overwhelmed to know how to go about using open standards. Regarding abc radio, it's awesome that Graeme let them know he preferred open formats. The successful companies *do* respond to customer feedback, so I'm surprised they didn't even reply. Has anyone else tried writing to them? > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > "In the struggle of Good against Evil, it's always the people > who get killed." -- Eduardo Galeano > -- 11:04am up 2 days, 20:59, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.05, 0.01-- > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
