On 27/03/12 14:42, Chris Walker wrote:
On 27/03/12 13:34, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
It works for me playing http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r4.asx
Perhaps you could try the stream in another radio player, e.g. rhythmbox, and maybe that would say which plugin was missing?
That link plays in VLC but won't play i.e. I don't get any errors but likewise, I don't hear any output from SMPlayer. But, if I 'Open a URL' in SMPLayer and paste in the full link, it *does* play. That seems to suggest that the gstreamer thing is a red herring.
I find VLC will play things that others can't. From that point of view, it's not very useful using it to work out what's missing. That's why I suggested Rhythmbox, as ISTR that that gives you a message and suggests downloading codecs & stuff if there's a problem. At least that's what I recall it doing under Ubuntu.
You may find this repository http://packages.medibuntu.org useful for plugins.
I'm running Mandriva 2011.0 64 bit in case that changes things.
Yes, medibuntu won't be any use. Sorry, I just assumed which distro you'd be using. Silly me!
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Is there a log file anywhere that might give me a clue as to what's wrong?
Probably, no clue where tho!
Steve