I'm looking for a command line program to listen to BBC radio live streams.
I'm a bit of a newbie with trying to do this and I'm a bit confused by the fact that all of the URLs I can find for 'streaming' are actually playlists.
But anyway, be that as it may, I have tried a couple of programs to listen to the .asx streams that seem to be the most readily available BBC streams with mostly rather poor results:-
mpg321 - doesn't seem to recognise URLs at all though the man page says it should.
mpg123 - recognises some URLs (in particular .pls ones) but doesn't appear to understand .asx.
mplayer - this manages to play .asx URLs but it's really a movie player and thus drags in far more bits and pieces than I want, playback is still choppy.
How much processor power and/or bandwidth is required to play a basic radio stream?