Luverly Linux

[KeyboardJockey]

There's also the helix player. It's an "open" replayer...

Doesn't work with the BBC site.

Unless I'm configuring it wrong th at is.

Sadly I'm going to have to admit defeat with online radio. It took me all of 5 minutes to install RP on the XP section of the disc compared with umpteen hours faffing around to get a non working install and ending up with a locked file I can't get rid of.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

RESULT!!! PROBLEM SOLVED!!

Re: Online Radio problem?
OK this one came courtesy Linux Express Website. http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/10824

It was originally a Terminal Window command to allow listening to the BBC World Service.

The original command was:

/usr/bin/mplayer -cache 256 rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/worldservice/liveinfent.ra

What I did was c+p into an Open Office wordpro document and change the command to :

/usr/bin/vlc -cache 256 rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio4/listenagaininfent.ra

I pasted this (after sudo of course) into the Terminal Window entered my PW and hit return.

I closed the TW when the process had completed and opened up the BBC Radio 4 website www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers

My chosen radio programme then opened up with no problem using VLC.

I'm well pleased that this has worked as it is the first time I have modified a given command line with a bit of lateral thinking.

Thank you all for the help trying to get Real Player working but VLC works far far better now.

Looks like the only reason I will have to go back to XP now is to play Doom

I hope that other newbies who are having problems with online BBC radio read this as it might solve their problem.

 

[jæd]

I should really have used one command at a time but on the Ubuntu forums people paste up reams of commands and assume that you know the conventions.

Even if a whole ream of commands is posted its a good idea to one by one. How will you compensate for an error...? Unless its part of a script, and then error checking should be part of the script...

 

[jæd]

I'm well pleased that this has worked as it is the first time I have modified a given command line with a bit of lateral thinking.

 

[Jonti]

...
Looks like the only reason I will have to go back to XP now is to play Doom
...

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/

 

[jayeola]

well done keyjokey for keeping up and sticking with it.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

well done keyjokey for keeping up and sticking with it.

Thanks I really can't see myself going back to Windoze now. I had to pop back to the WinXP partition yesterday to see if RealPlayer would install on there and it felt so clunky when compared to Ubuntu.

The Win XP RP installer signs you up for spam etc by default which is mighty annoying for instance.

I'm beginning to see the truth in the criticism of windows as 'a disaster masquarading as an OS.'

I'm glad I stuck with it.

Thanks for putting up with my whinges.

 

[jayeola]

Thanks for putting up with my whinges.

That'll be £375.56

 

[KeyboardJockey]

That'll be £375.56

I can run to a pint when I see you

 

[jayeola]

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/pub
cd /media/pub
which pub

/usr/local/bin/albert

 

[KeyboardJockey]

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/pub
cd /media/pub
which pub

/usr/local/bin/albert

Sounds good. I'm paid next tuesdayso I'll deffo buy you a pint

 

[jayeola]

nah... I didn't help you at all. Would be nice meeting up though. Always good to meet other ppl, eh?