How can I play these files?

How can I play these files?

[Toby Fisher]

Quite a lot of radio stations in the UK seem to be using a strange format
to stream their audio.

The mime type is application/x-ms-asf but the files served are actually
.asx files.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Cheers.

p.s. The BBC don't use this format, they use good ol' Real Audio.


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Re: How can I play these files?

[Alex Snow]

Yeah, that's one of microsoft's formats.  It plays with winblows media
player but I don't know if there is any player for linux.  The ".asx" files
are the playlists.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Fisher" <toby_fisher@bigfoot.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:01 AM
Subject: How can I play these files?


> Quite a lot of radio stations in the UK seem to be using a strange format
> to stream their audio.
>
> The mime type is application/x-ms-asf but the files served are actually
> .asx files.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> Cheers.
>
> p.s. The BBC don't use this format, they use good ol' Real Audio.
>
>
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Re: How can I play these files?

[Igor Gueths]

Hi. I'd just like to add that if you want video, you'll need to compile in support for the sdl libraries for X, which you can get I believe at http://wwwopensdl.org. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Shane Wegner <shane@cm.nu>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: How can I play these files?


> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:01:13AM +0100, Toby Fisher wrote:
> > Quite a lot of radio stations in the UK seem to be using a strange format
> > to stream their audio.
> > 
> > The mime type is application/x-ms-asf but the files served are actually
> > .asx files.
> 
> You might give mplayer a shot.  It can play most formats
> including Microsoft RealMedia streams.
> <http://www.mplayerhq.hu>
> 
> Regards,
> Shane
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Re: How can I play these files?

[Toby Fisher]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi. I'd just like to add that if you want video, you'll need to
> compile in support for the sdl libraries for X, which you can get I
> believe at http://wwwopensdl.org.

Hmmm, well I don't want video, I followed the instructions given by Johan,
and it sort of works.  I had to tell it to use the oss sound driver,
because under alsa it kept playing the same half-second or so of audio
over and over again till I killed speakup.

Also, when I try to play .asx files it says it can't find a load of fonts
it needs, don't know what that's about, but it's looking in my home dir
and in /usr/local/share/something.

Cheers.

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Re: How can I play these files?

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Toby. What version of alsa gave you the audio playback problem? Was it
0.9.0beta12? Because my 2.4.18 kernel doesn't have the oss modules
compiled into it. I really don't want to rebuild the kernel!

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
>
> > Hi. I'd just like to add that if you want video, you'll need to
> > compile in support for the sdl libraries for X, which you can get I
> > believe at http://wwwopensdl.org.
>
> Hmmm, well I don't want video, I followed the instructions given by Johan,
> and it sort of works.  I had to tell it to use the oss sound driver,
> because under alsa it kept playing the same half-second or so of audio
> over and over again till I killed speakup.
>
> Also, when I try to play .asx files it says it can't find a load of fonts
> it needs, don't know what that's about, but it's looking in my home dir
> and in /usr/local/share/something.
>
> Cheers.
>
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> Toby Fisher	Email: toby@g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk
> Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272	Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239
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Re: How can I play these files?

[Toby Fisher]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi Toby. What version of alsa gave you the audio playback problem? Was it
> 0.9.0beta12? Because my 2.4.18 kernel doesn't have the oss modules
> compiled into it. I really don't want to rebuild the kernel!

Yes, I'm using the same version as you, but if you read the message that
Johan sent, he did say that ALSA support is still under construction, as
it were, or at least I think that's where I saw that, but alsa doesn't
appear to be stable for it yet.

Cheers.

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Re: How can I play these files?

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Toby. So I would have to rebuild the kernel just to be able to play
audio with mplayer? Couldn't mplayer use oss emulation available in alsa
and work properly?

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
>
> > Hi Toby. What version of alsa gave you the audio playback problem? Was it
> > 0.9.0beta12? Because my 2.4.18 kernel doesn't have the oss modules
> > compiled into it. I really don't want to rebuild the kernel!
>
> Yes, I'm using the same version as you, but if you read the message that
> Johan sent, he did say that ALSA support is still under construction, as
> it were, or at least I think that's where I saw that, but alsa doesn't
> appear to be stable for it yet.
>
> Cheers.
>
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Re: How can I play these files?

[Toby Fisher]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi Toby. So I would have to rebuild the kernel just to be able to play
> audio with mplayer? Couldn't mplayer use oss emulation available in alsa
> and work properly?

Hmmm, the only oss stuff I've got in my kernel is soundcore.  As long as
your alsa drivers are built with oss emulation, it should work, just use
ao=oss instead of ao=alsa9.

HTH

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