[ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

[Robert Longstaff]

> They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as 
> far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux media players 
> (including mplayer!) that can play Windows Media DRM'd files and b) no 
> way of stripping the DRM without using Windows.

I don't know if the Radio 4 stream is an exception but the following
plays quite happily using mplayer (with the right codecs installed);

mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/bbc_ami/radio4/radio4_bb_live_eq1_sl0

Maybe similar URLs can be found for the other stations?


Robert.