[ubuntu-uk] RealMedia streams (rtsp:) in Gutsy

[Kris Douglas]

On 12/11/2007, Stephen Drake <stevepdrake at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:50 +0000, Kris Marsh wrote:
> > On Nov 12, 2007 10:45 AM, Greg K Nicholson <newsgroups at gkn.me.uk> wrote:
> > > Sean Miller:
> > > > I'm sure it's all working for me in mplayer... unless it's something
> > > > else you're referring to... the BBC Website Realaudio streams?
> > > >
> > > > Sean
> > > >
> > >
> > > The stream I'm trying is
> > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/rm/video/news24_bb.ram
> > > which redirects to an RTSP stream.
> > >
> > > That address can be found by following the "Watch Live BBC News 24"
> link
> > > towards the top of http://news.bbc.co.uk/ then in the resulting pop-up
> > > following the "Launch in stand alone player" link.
> > >
> > > (Incidentally, that should say "stand-alone"; silly BBC.)
> > >
> > > MPlayer doesn't like me either:
> > > "Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: www.bbc.co.uk"
> > >
> > > (Which is fair enough because I don't like *it* — every time you use a
> > > multiple-window interface, one of the HIG gnomes dies. (Wilbur is
> wanted
> > > by Interpol.))
> > >
> > > So: I can't find RealPlayer in Add/Remove or Synaptic; and Totem,
> Helix
> > > Player, VLC and MPlayer all can't play the stream.
> > >
> > > I don't think it's an internet connectivity issue, because Amarok and
> > > Totem can both play SomaFM's mp3 streams happily. E.g.:
> > > http://somafm.com/startstream=indiepop.pls
> > > http://somafm.com/startstream=groovesalad.pls
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
> > >
> >
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > mplayer -playlist
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/rm/video/news24_bb.ram
> >
> > Alternatively, grab the contents of the ram file:
> >
> > wget
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/tvseq/n24/bb/rm/video/news24_bb.ram -qO
> -
> > rtsp://rmlive-
> acl.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive-acl/farm/live24/news/news24_bb.rm?BBC-UID=b43783e8129f3b062346e396c0d073415837f35c90302174a4cff63f8234acdb_n&SSO2-UID=
> >
> > And bung that directly into mplayer, either *should* work.
> >
> > Kris
> >
>
> Also consider installing the mozilla-mplayer plugin (from multiverse),
> it should then play the stream within the browser. It's not very pretty,
> but it works.
>
> Steve
>
>
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That's always a nightmare, that player gets in the way of loads of the stuff
I already have players for in firefox. I *presonally *dont recomend it.

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Kris Douglas
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