replace RealPlayer

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 19:21 +1030, Brian Astill wrote:
> Is there a replacement that will play ABC radio streams, eg
> http://abc.net.au/adelaide/onair/891stream.ram
> http://abc.net.au/streaming/newsradio.ram
> 
> Realplayer 10 Gold is the last of the free Linux offers and it is 
> not reliable in 64 bit Ubuntu Gutsy and will not run at all in 32 
> bit Gutsy.
> 
> VLC works wonderfully on http://mbs-sa.org:8000/listen.pls but 
> cannot handle those ram files.  So far I haven't found anything 
> that can.
> 
> Advice would be welcome.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Brian
> 
I use Realplayer 10 Gold all the time for NPR Radio. It's the only thing
I found worked for it. Everything else failed after they installed their
new proprietary "npr media player".

good luck,

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