Hi Burt VLC was originated by French students in Paris and the name of its home page www.videolan.org strongly suggests to me that it should facilitate the recording of streams. So I looked it up ... I can only suggest browsing http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo
VLC is supposed to have podcast support also. Again I have never used this feature so I cannot help I'm afraid. Good Luck Maurice On 27/08/2010, Burt Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > thank you for the info/I installed the "easy installcodecs" script > included with > Vinous...I am so looking for other solutions for .pdf reading to avoid > the bloated Adobe option, but may break-down and use this if the > conversion program does not deal with multi-column formats and such... > sudo apt-get install geditpdf > This is cmd line only, but I am going to try and install a way to click > on a context menu option to convert in the nautilus file manager. > Also accessibility is supposed to be close to resolved in the .pdf > viewer included in Vinux/ think Ubuntu as well. > I have been using the gnome player since last night, and although it > does crash under some conditions, I find it the best interface of the > Linux GUI players I've tried...did you say you used VLC? > Does this let you record streaming audio? > I got an ap called streamtuner that defaults to use audacious player, > but I think may work with other media players, and can rip from streams.) > How podcast retrieving software, any suggestions? > Thanks. > On 08/27/2010 01:30 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: >> Burt >> >> It has just occurred to me that you may have to do >> >> $ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras >> >> to get the codecs to play a DVD with VLC. It also includes things like >> the installer for the acrobat reader, flash and several codecs. The >> reason this is not installed by default is legal. The codec converters >> are illegal in some countries so it is up to the individual to make >> sure that the package is ok for them. Acroread can be used as a >> work-around to get a narration from an open office text document. >> >> There is no text to speech in Open Office yet so you export the file >> to pdf and use the acrobat narration. >> >> Alternatively >> >> $ sudo aptitude install libdvdcss2 >> >> will play many DVDs. >> >> Best Wishes >> Maurice >> >> > > -- > *the above was probably written by- > Burt Henry > Contact Info: *email, GTalk&AIM- > ([email protected]) > *Follow Me on Twitter- > @BurtHenry > *and I’m on Facebook* > > -- Best Wishes -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
