On 11/22/13, David E. Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/21/2013 10:04 PM, Lee wrote: >> On 11/21/13, David E. Ross <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Windows 7 (x64) >>> SeaMonkey 2.22.1 >>> RealPlayer 15.6.0.14 >>> Winamp 5.66 >>> >>> Winamp and RealPlayer do indeed work with a number of the streams I >>> like, mostly classical music. Although Winamp does not appear in the >>> list of plugins with either [Help > About Plugins] or [Tools > Add-ons >>> Manager > Plugins], I can select a link to a stream and receive the >>> broadcast. >>> >>> However, I am having trouble with some live streaming broadcasts. The >>> affected (and afflicted) links end with the extension .pls (e.g., >>> listen.pls, mp3.pls). When I select a .pls link, I get an error popup >>> that says: >>>> C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Temp\listen-7.pls could not be opened, >>>> because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the >>>> association in your preferences. >>> The "listen-7.pls" might instead be "mp3-5.pls" for a mp3.pls link. >>> >>> When I go to [Edit > Preferences > Browser > Helper Applications], I >>> cannot find an entry for .pls. I do find an entry for MIME type >>> audio/x-scpls but not audio/pls, neither of which are registered with >>> the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (IANA). >>> >>> How do I create a new Helper Application entry for .pls files? >> >> It would help if you gave an example url, but try saving the .pls file >> & then opening in windows explorer by right clicking on the file & >> selecting open or open with. Windows should come back with some error >> about not knowing how to open the file and then let you choose a >> program to use for opening the file. Choose winamp, realplayer or >> whatever you think might work and then try your website with the live >> streaming broadcasts again. >> >> Lee >> > > I tried Open With with each of RealPlayer, Winamp, and VLC. None of > that worked to enable playing the streams from links in a Web page.
If you go to http://www.kcea.org/~kceaplaylist/ourmusic.html and click on the Philco --- do you get music? > However, the Open With launch whatever application I indicated and > played the streaming broadcast from just the downloaded fragment of a > file. > > Here are two links: > > <http://69.12.217.101:8000/listen.pls> -- KCEA, 89.1 FM, Atherton, CA > > <http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/KMZTFM.pls> -- KMZT, 1620 > AM, Los Angeles, CA Swing/Big band -- I love it! Good links, thank you. It's probably easier opening the browser and clicking on a link, but you can play the music straight from vlc - open vlc, click on media / open network stream and type or paste in http://69.12.217.101:8000/ and vlc starts playing music Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
