"Light bulb"

[Daniel Robitaille]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> The one and only complain I see (and have myself) about Ubuntu is of
> course the multimedia, video, sound, internet surfing (java, flash, real
> player, what have you) just don't work out of the box. I myself gave up
> listening to my local/French on-line radios because I just can't get
> anything from their web sites to work, be it live streaming, or
> listening to their archives.
> 

I also gave up on streaming a year or so ago, mostly because more and more of 
them were using Microsoft-based solutions for streaming; especially online 
radio stations.  Have you try podcasting?  There are thousand of shows out 
there, some crap, some very good.  But since they are one audio file per show, 
usually mp3 (but sometimes ogg), "broadcasters" have to keep them in a simpler 
technology than streams.  That makes them a lot easier to listen to using 
existing applications in Ubuntu. (rhythmbox + gstreamer0.8-mad and you are set).


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Daniel Robitaille