Don't hurry up to say that there is a similar topic! I've read all the infos but didn't work out. The point is that i use Firefox 2.0.0.12 and i want to listen e-radio from this website www.e-radio.gr. Mozilla can't play the streaming files. Any idea?
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Have you tried using konqueror? I normally use Opera, however there are some websites that I have to use konqueror, especially ones that are media based.
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Thanks! It works with the xine player. I would really like to stick though with firefox. Isn't there an equivalent plugin?
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In cases like this I open one konqueror window to play the media I want to play. I then use Opera for all the other things I want to do.
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I guess this is the thing for me too. It's a pity, and to tell you the truth, i just can't believe that firefox can't play streaming files in such an advanced Linux distro...(gibbon guts). Any other solution are more than welcome, until then Mike's solution will do. Mike thanks for your quick response!Comment
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I think it has more to do with how KDE works together (one of the major reasons I support KDE). konqueror is able to parse what the website is looking for and feed that information directly to xine. I don't use gnome, so I don't know how that all works.
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I just tried your link with Firefox 3.0 -- I clicked the "Thessaloniki" stream and it started right up playing. I don't think there's any huge secret to it -- I've got greasemonkey, mplayer, and vlc plugins, plus gnash and flashplugin-nonfree. I think that's it.Originally posted by dimmutal
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I had the same experience as dibl on this one. Firefox 3.0.3pre opened the player and starting playing the music. I also have Flash and mplayer plugin installed.Comment
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I have the same problem. It exists for my test (unconfigured) user as well, even after reinstalling mplayer and mplayer-plugin.
Next I'll try firefox 3.
EDIT: Tried firefox 3, the problem seems to be with mplayer itself. Running:
mplayer -v http://www.e-radio.gr/player/asx/413.asx
does not work. See if you can confirm it's your mplayer too dimmutual. The important bits of the output near the end seem to be:
I think it's gotta be the codecs... It's only seeing it as 243 bytes long!Code:[size=1] --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- START --- protocol: [HTTP/1.1] http minor version: [1] uri: [(null)] method: [(null)] status code: [200] reason phrase: [OK] body size: [243] Fields: 0 - Content-Length: 243 1 - Content-Type: video/x-ms-asf 2 - Last-Modified: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:58:05 GMT 3 - Accept-Ranges: bytes 4 - ETag: "20842f12cc81c81:314" 5 - Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 6 - Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:07:44 GMT 7 - Connection: close --- HTTP DEBUG HEADER --- END --- Content-Type: [video/x-ms-asf] Content-Length: [243] Cache size set to 320 KBytes STREAM: [null] [url]http://www.e-radio.gr/player/asx/413.asx[/url] STREAM: Description: http streaming STREAM: Author: Bertrand, Albeu, Arpi? who? STREAM: Comment: plain http, also used as fallback for many other protocols CACHE_PRE_INIT: 0 [0] 243 pre:65536 eof:1 Cache fill: 0.07% (243 bytes) ASF_check: not ASF guid! vo: x11 uninit called but X11 not inited.. Exiting... (End of file) [/size]
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You're extracting the wrong link. If you want to play directly with mplayer, use this link instead:
http://listen.onestreaming.com/ASX/rythmosfm.ASX
It's difficult to pull the links from pages like this one because they're so deeply embedded. This is just one of the stations on the page, of course. If you have a specific one, let me know and I'll try to get the link to it.Comment
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Ok, i downloaded the firefox-3.0 module from adept manager and a "new" browser was added to my programs list named Grand paradiso browser. At the beginning it made some compatibility tests with firefox plugins and then started. However i still can't listen to e-radio because it says that the xmplayer plugin is missing which i don't know how to install.Comment
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Thanks randcoop! It does now seem to be a mplayer-in problem or incompatibility between mplayer-plugin and mplayer itself. For example,
Does not play, failing with "Stream not seekable". But this does work fine:Code:mplayer [url]http://listen.onestreaming.com/ASX/rythmosfm.ASX[/url]
Going to that site in say firefox, mplayer-plugin generates this line to mplayer, which does not play for me:Code:mplayer -playlist [url]http://listen.onestreaming.com/ASX/rythmosfm.ASX[/url]
(This was obtained by setting debug=1 in ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.confCode:mplayer -wid 0x2400372 -vo x11 -zoom -ao arts -osdlevel 1 -nojoystick -noconsolecontrols -cookies -softvol -slave -user-agent NSPlayer -nomouseinput [url]http://listen.onestreaming.com/ASX/rythmosfm.ASX[/url]
But this does work fine:
This seems to be the problem I've been having with CBC radio as well. It generates the line:Code:mplayer -wid 0x2400372 -vo x11 -zoom -ao arts -osdlevel 1 -nojoystick -noconsolecontrols -cookies -softvol -slave -user-agent NSPlayer -nomouseinput -playlist [url]http://listen.onestreaming.com/ASX/rythmosfm.ASX[/url]
Which does not play, even if I add the -playlist option, because it gets redirected to a reflector akamai.com. But forcing it to play does work as in the line:Code:mplayer -wid 0x2404257 -vf scale=300:-3 -vo x11 -zoom -ao arts -osdlevel 1 -nojoystick -noconsolecontrols -cookies -softvol -slave -user-agent NSPlayer -nomouseinput [url]http://www.cbc.ca/livemedia/cbcr1-calgary.asx[/url]
It seems the root of the problem is that mplayer doesn't inherently know what to do with an ASX. Can you please confirm that this is your problem dimmutal? I don't want to be taking over your thread with a different problem!Code:mplayer -playlist [url]http://mfile2.akamai.com/9617/live/reflector:36811.asx?bkup=36812[/url]
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I believe that you've correctly identified some of the problems with mplayer. In particular, links don't invoke the -playlist option for mplayer, and that often causes problems. When I use the BBC news site and try to launch the player in an independent window, it works with kmplayer, but not with either smplayer or mplayer. That seems to be because kmplayer somehow uses the -playlist option when it's invoked, but the other two don't.
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I confirm the above.Originally posted by moirComment
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Almost SOLVED!! Copied all the plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, to ~/.mozilla/plugins/ , seems to be working.. There is one minor problem though. When the streaming window opens, although i can listen to the station, the area where the control buttons should appear (play, pause, voice etc) is black and inside it says no video. Any ideas?
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