anyone else with this problem

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 03:56, David Fox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Paul S <paulatgm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could you point your firefox to bloomberg.com and see if you get the
> > error message
>
> I'm not seeing such an error, but I'm not able to connect to the
> "radio" section. It brings up a popup window, starts to do its
> buffering - it seems that mplayer is going to play the content, as it
> should, and most all other sites work that let me connect via
> mplayerplugin. The "buffering" seems to be going slowly, as I have a
> fast connection. Then it says "connected" although there is no audio
> coming out of the speakers, then it (soon) goes into another buffering
> step, then says "stopped".
>
> Cutting and pasting the URL that comes up when the listen to radio
> popup comes up is a better way to check to see if mplayer can actually
> play the content, if there's a network connection problem or something
> else that is inhibiting the playback.
>
> Ultimately, this looks like there is a missing codec. I had to alter
> the url of the referrer and then add -playlist to get something out of
> mplayer: And if you look carefully, you can actually find the correct
> stream URL that it is trying to access, it is quite well hidden. ;(

I see the same as you for streaming radio on the bloomberg site.

I don't think it's a problem with mplayerplug-in, as http://cpr.org/ which 
also streams using the .asx format works fine with Firefox 3.0.3 on Kubuntu 
HH, 8.04, as below.

Playing http://www.cpr.org/listen/live_newsinfo.asx

I'm on dialup, and the site above gives you the dialup users option, but even 
on broadband only sites you get perhaps a couple of seconds of sound, then a 
break, then a bit more sound, but absolutely zilch on the bloomberg site.

Nigel.