On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 00:06 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 16:28, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I recently installed the remi firefox2 on my FC4 machine, It works > > better then the old firefox in many respoect but one thing is > > frusatrating me. > > > > If I go to to www.npr.org I can play the program stream which plays with > > mplayer. But if I try to play one of the npr program audio streams > > mplayer opens and processes the audio input but no continuous sound > > comes out. Just instants of sound from time to time. Other radio music > > stations play but not npr. > > > > I really want to play the audio stream with realplay but when I feed the > > strea, of realplay it complains of a missing audio type, > > Any ideas. > > > "I am your density." -- George McFly in "Back to the Future" > > I've just tried it, and it seems to want to use WM. This works ok as I have > Mplayerplugin installed. > freviously I have chosen to usw WM to play npr and it has worked. But now it only works on the program stream not the stream drom a particular program. This is an FC4 machine. On my FC6 machine both streams work but it uses realplayer, So I am frustrated. But what is new about that. I have a DSL line so the dialup problem is not my problem. > I'm only on dialup, but the hourly newscast plays ok, and so does the NPR > Program Stream. > > I've been on sites that give you the choice of Realplayer, or Wm. Sometimes > one works , and the other doesn't. > > I think you just have to go with the one that works. For me, as long as I can > hear some speech, or some music, I couldn't care less if it's using > Realplayer, Windows media player, Flash, or whatever. > > Saying that though, I've just tried to play music from the site, and as I've > said. I am on dialup, and am just getting 1 or 2 seconds of music at a time, > followed by some buffering, then a bit more music. > > Too much bandwidth needed for the music, but speech works ok. > > Nigel. > -- ======================================================================= Being Ymor's right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces. -- Terry Pratchett, "The Colour of Magic" ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
