On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:56:15PM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 23 April 2012 22:47, Chris Green chris@isbd.co.uk wrote:
I've just put it into exaile, it played for a few seconds then just said "Buffering 0%..." and virtually completely stopped. Even producing no sound at all virtually exaile is using 30% or more of the CPU.
Seems like network or software issue.
Please... no iPlayer / BBC links. Do you have any other links?
There are virtually no other usable links for BBC radio, since most of the point of this exercise is to listen to the BBC I'm a bit stuck!
Not everyone has, or wants, a license.
No need for a license to listen to BBC radio nowadays.
Don't know what codecs they use. If they use dirac, I thought that was very experimental a few years ago.
While I'm about it very few of the media players really seem to know what streaming radio looks like.
For example when I use mplayer on the following BBC stream:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r4x_aaclca.pls
It shows me a standard layout for playing an audio track with buttons for Rewind, Pause, Stop and Fast Forward none of which make any sense at all for streaming radio. Hitting Stop produces a Stopped message but doesn't actually do anything, I still get (chopped up) playback of the stream.