I'm seeking (for someone else) to get streaming BBC to play over some Linux player, don't really care what, on 64bit Debian. Once more cursing the day I ever installed 64 rather than 32bit, and on more than one machine, but that's another story.
Amarok, attempting to tune into (for example)
mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio1/radio1_nb_e1s1
gives the response
Error loading media, there is no available decoder.
I set up amarok in accordance with these instructions:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gaming-games-multimedia-entertainment/79340...
and presumably having got to the point of trying to play, probably did it right.
Assuming this is because there is no win codecs, I went to medubuntu and got the 32 bit ones. This was a large weighty package. They will not install being 32bit. OK, went back and got the 64 bit amd64 ones. This was a suspiciously small file, and one's fears were realized when the package installed and the message was unchanged.
I have also downloaded Real Player, and made it executable, but now what to do with it? It too of course is 32bit and presumably that is why it will do zip when you try to start it.
There is no problem downloading the mp3 files for previously broadcast programmes, and they play just fine (rhythmbox seems to be an acceptable interface for this). But what I'm really being asked to provide is streaming BBC internet radio.
Anyone done it?
Peter
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:59 +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I have also downloaded Real Player, and made it executable, but now what to do with it? It too of course is 32bit and presumably that is why it will do zip when you try to start it.
No that should work..there is nothing stopping you running 32bit applications on a 64bit distro as long as you have the necessary 32bit dependencies (some things also like to be run from linux32 so that they don't get all confused) so you could try typing linux32 followed by the realplayer bin file. Not sure what the dependencies of realplayer are but it might be worth firing up the package manager of your choice and doing a search for lib32 and installing everything but the dev packages. Do you get any message at all if you try and run realplayer from the console (also isn't the file you download not just an installer and if so it is this that is failing)
There is no problem downloading the mp3 files for previously broadcast programmes, and they play just fine (rhythmbox seems to be an acceptable interface for this). But what I'm really being asked to provide is streaming BBC internet radio.
The other way is to stick on a 32bit copy of firefox and then a 32bit copy of mplayer along with the mplayer plugins for firefox then you can use the windows codecs of your choice.
If you want the realplayer plugins to work in ff you are going to have to install a 32bit copy anyway. But without that it will still work happily in standalone mode.
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