Re: Why does mplayer no longer play Car Talk?

From: Michael Marsh (michael.a.marsh_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:48:41 -0500
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    On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:48:40 GMT, Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > I used to use mplayer from the console successfully to
    > listen to the Car Talk radio show.
    > http://www.cartalk.com/Radio/Show/online.html
    >
    > As shown below, it now fails with a missing codec, but
    > I have not removed any packages from my system. Any
    > suggestions for getting it to work again would
    > be appreciated.

    Since you say "any suggestions", I've had no problems with xine, other
    than that I have to download the playlist file rather than streaming
    directly. I've had good results with the following:

    xine `grep rtsp unnamed`

    where "unnamed" is the name that Firefox gives to the playlist. 

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Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
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